Over $380K Allocated to Fight Fresh Desert Locust Invasion

A total of 100 billion rials ($387,000) have so far been allocated to combating the new wave of desert locusts, swarms of which invaded Iran in late October, according to the director general of Pest Control Department, which is affiliated to the Agriculture Ministry’s Plant Protection Organization.
The first bands were spotted in Hormozgan Province’s Bashagard County on Oct. 28. 
“We need another 100 billion rials to be able to battle the voracious pest effectively. To do so, we need the budget to be allocated by Nov. 21,” Saeed Moein was also quoted as saying by ILNA.