Khartoum is due to host in the 24 of current month the regional conference of the Desert Locust Control Organization (DLCO) with the participation of 9 countries from east and central Africa to discuss agricultural pest control.
The Director of the Plants Protection Department of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry,, Khidr Jibril, said to SUNA that the conference will discuss a number of issues related to pest control in these countries and how to come up with recommendations that would contribute to the eradication of all kinds of pests that destroy agriculture in these countries.
He added that Sudan is a founding member of the organization since 1962 and last year marked the organization's 60th anniversary under its chairmanship in Ethiopia.
The DALCO organization includes countries from IGAD countries: Sudan, Somalia, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania and Southern Sudan, and is working in the control of desert locusts, starlings and tsetse flies.
He announced the convening of a global conference on prevention in Wad Maddani, the capital of al-Gazira state, in next October to discuss how to combat insect pests.

Source:SUNA