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Mauritania Agriculture - Nutrition Mauritania risks another locust infestation afrol News, 11 October - Mauritania is not completely free another locust infestation, as new desert locusts were detected in the country's northwest, prompting the Food Agricultural Organisation (FAO) to warn national locust centres in Algeria, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Senegal and other risk areas to be on high alert against the threat of desert locust in West and North Africa.According to FAO experts, the new infestations might have originated from "undetected breeding" during the past two months in Mauritania or north-western of Mali. The adult locusts, which were said to be present in green vegetation with high rainfall northeast of Nouakchott, are laying eggs that are expected to hatch in ten days time. By staff writers © afrol News |
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