KSA supports FAO with $1.5 million to combat desert locusts in affected countries

11/25/2019

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, represented by the Ministry of Environment, Water and Agriculture (MEWA), provided financial assistance worth $ 1.5 million to support the FAO emergency fund of the Commission for Controlling the Desert Locust in the Central Region (CRC). It aims to promote desert locust control operations in Yemen, Sudan, Eritrea and Ethiopia.

This action came during a meeting brought together the Deputy Minister for Shared Services Mr. Ali Ahmed Asiri, the Director-General of Locusts Control and Migratory Pests Center Eng. Mohammed Hussein Al Shamrani and the CRC Executive Secretary Mamoon Al Alawi at FAO headquarters in Cairo. During the meeting, they reviewed the spending program and plan for locust-effected countries and discussed the potential challenges during the next stage; to strengthen the work of desert locust control operations in these countries and thus reduce the desert locust impact on the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

It is noteworthy that this financial assistance is a continuation of the Kingdom's earlier support provided to many countries during the past years, as it supports the efforts of these countries to control the desert locust to strengthen the technical and logistical capabilities to mitigate the impacts of the locust attack on crops.

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