AAP General News (Australia)
01-18-1999
QLD: Locust program to avert worst threat in 25 years
BRISBANE, Jan 18 AAP - An extensive locust control program in central Queensland should
help avert the worst locust threat in 25 years, the state government said today.
An aerial campaign against a new generation of swarming locusts began today at Clermont, in
a bid to protect crops worth about $150 million against a looming plague.
Before Christmas, a $1 million aerial spraying program was waged against the first
generation of the destructive insect across 70,000 hectares of central Queensland.
Environment minister Rod Welford said …
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