More than 200 million yuan of economic losses are directly reduced by grassland pest control in China

Introduction: a spokesman for animal husbandry work of the Ministry of agriculture told reporters today that at present, the area of grassland insect disaster in China is 280 million mu, more than 100 million mu less than the same period last year, and the prevention and control of grassland insect disaster has achieved good results Up to now, more than 40 million mu of insect disasters have been prevented and controlled, effectively curbing the spread of grassland insect disasters, protecting the ecological environment and directly reducing economic losses by more than 200 million yuan In view of the occurrence of grassland insect disaster this year, in order to achieve the prevention and control goal of "locusts do not take off and become a disaster, locusts do not spread, and locusts enter the country do not migrate twice", the Ministry of agriculture and local grassland management departments at all levels actively take effective measures to effectively strengthen the prevention and control of grassland insect disaster First, the prevention and control work should be deployed as early as possible and the responsibility for prevention and control should be effectively implemented In March, the Ministry of Agriculture issued the notice on strengthening the prevention and control of grassland rodents and insects In May and July, the national video conference on locust prevention and control and the conference of locust prevention and control headquarters were successively held According to the principle of "territorial management and hierarchical responsibility", the system of head responsibility was implemented at all levels Second, strengthen monitoring and early warning to ensure the information transmission in place In March, the Ministry of Agriculture organized relevant experts to make a prediction and consultation on the occurrence trend of grassland insect disaster this year, and asked all regions to strengthen the monitoring work Since June 10, our ministry has launched the 24-hour grassland pest prevention and control duty system and reporting system, with key locust areas reporting twice a week, general locust areas reporting once a week, and major disasters reporting in time to ensure smooth information transmission Third, strengthen supervision and guidance to ensure the implementation of various measures From June to August, the Ministry of agriculture successively formed seven inspection teams, led by the leaders of the Ministry and the Department, to go deep into key locust areas such as Inner Mongolia, Xinjiang, Hebei, Sichuan, etc., to supervise the prevention and control of grassland insect disaster and the implementation of the emergency plan for grassland insect disaster prevention and control, and assist in solving the problems found in time Fourth, strengthen the training of prevention and control technology and actively promote biological prevention and control technology The Ministry of Agriculture organized experts in a timely manner, strengthened technical guidance and training, effectively prevented human and animal poisoning and other casualty accidents, and guaranteed the safety of prevention and control work The technology of biological control of locust, such as attracting pink starling, raising chickens and ducks, Metarhizium anisopliae, etc., has been vigorously promoted, which has effectively protected the ecological environment while preventing and controlling the grassland insect disaster Fifthly, we should strengthen the prevention and control of locusts in border areas, and effectively control the second take-off of locusts In recent years, locusts from Mongolia, Kazakhstan and other neighboring countries have moved into China for many times, causing serious harm to the grasslands of our country This year, Xinjiang and Inner Mongolia paid close attention to the immigration dynamics of overseas locusts The central finance ensured that the limited financial and material resources incline to the key border locust occurrence areas Once the locusts are found to enter the country, they should be timely organized to focus on the elimination The Ministry of Agriculture said it would further improve the national plan for the control of grassland insect disasters in the future, in accordance with the principle of "focusing on the key points and linking them together in a centralized way", and improve the monitoring and control capacity of grassland insect disasters.