Is the desert locust plague in East Africa a form of non-traditional security threat?

, a number of countries declared a state of emergency in response, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) issued an early warning to the world of the desert locust plague.

First, the desert locust plague ravaged, what is the impact on our country?

Historically, there have been four records of desert locusts found in Yunnan and Tibet, but no populations have been formed, and there is no record of significant damage caused by desert locusts.

Relevant experts analyzed and judged that, by the blocking effect of the Tibetan plateau, the possibility of large-scale invasion of desert locusts harming our country in the spring of this year is relatively small, and the risk of threatening the safety of China's forestry and grassland resources is relatively low. But at the same time, the expert judgment, if the climate conditions are suitable, Pakistan, India and other neighboring countries will continue to outbreak of locusts.

June-July in the westerly rapids and the Indian Ocean southwest monsoon *** with the role of the desert locusts there is the possibility of invasion of China's Yunnan, Xinjiang and other places. From Pakistan and India along the Tibetan Plateau valley area directly invaded our Tibet, or continue to migrate eastward through Myanmar invaded our Yunnan, or from Pakistan to the north migrate through Kazakhstan invaded China's Xinjiang, there is a risk of harm to our country.

Second, the State Forestry and Grassland Bureau of scientific research and judgment to develop preventive and control measures

Most of the locusts from the grassland occurrence and development, thereby jeopardizing crops. Once an outbreak of locusts occurs, it not only affects the grassland ecology, but also jeopardizes food security.

In this regard, the State Forestry and Grassland Bureau attaches great importance to the party group meeting to study the prevention and control of grassland locusts, set up the State Forestry and Grassland Bureau of the Grassland Locust Prevention and Control Command, the organization of experts on the desert locust plague may be on the grasslands of our country to carry out a scientific research and judgment, the development of preventive and control measures. Requirements for the possible existence of low-risk should not be ignored, to prevent problems before they occur, enhance the awareness of risk, adhere to the bottom line thinking, and do a solid job related to prevention and control and response work.

The State Forestry and Grassland Administration has issued an urgent notice to the provincial and regional forestry and grassland departments, requiring that the desert locusts may be arranged on the migration path of the monitoring point, real-time monitoring of the desert locusts migratory movements, and timely reporting of the situation. The government has also been working to improve the quality of the products and services provided by the government, and has been working to improve the quality of the products and services provided by the government.

The State Forestry and Grassland Administration is actively involved in international cooperation in the prevention and control of desert locusts, and the Grassland Management Department of the Bureau has sent a member of the working group organized by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs to go to Pakistan on February 23rd to participate in guiding the Pakistani side to carry out prevention and control work.

The relevant person in charge of the Grassland Management Department of the State Forestry and Grassland Bureau introduced that locusts are widely distributed in China's grassland areas, and China's grassland locust infestation occurs in an area of 150 million mu per year on average, with the highest year reaching 300 million mu.

The State Forestry and Grassland Administration will take this defense of foreign desert locusts as an opportunity to strengthen the native grassland locust prevention and control work. In accordance with the grassland locust migration and development of timely start grassland locust monitoring weekly reporting system, timely release of early warning information to guide the local prevention and control work. Actively seek support to strengthen the grassland locust control monitoring and early warning and prevention and control system construction, and constantly improve the grassland locust prevention and control capacity.

Third, about the desert locust, there are these you need to know

What is the locust?

Locusts, in fact, are what we know as grasshoppers. There are many kinds of locusts, there are more than 10,000 species in the world, there are more than 1,000 species in our country, which are distributed in tropical and temperate grasslands and desert areas all over the world. Locusts mainly include flying locusts and earth locusts, flying locusts in our country have three varieties, namely, East Asian flying locusts, Asian flying locusts and Tibetan flying locusts, of which the East Asian flying locusts in our country has the widest distribution, the most serious harm, is the most important species of flying locusts caused by locusts in our country, mainly harming the graminaceous plants, is an agricultural pest.

Why so serious this year?

According to the U.S. National Geographic reported that it is human activities that lead to climate change, ocean current patterns are abnormal, and then triggered a series of uncommon climatic phenomena, ultimately triggering the locust plague. Despite the word desert in its name, the explosive growth of desert locusts is due to high rainfall. The rain has caused vegetation in their habitats in Africa and the Middle East to flourish, which is conducive to their reproduction. Experts point out that over the past 18 months, several rare cyclonic storms in East Africa and the Arabian Peninsula have brought an unusually wet climate, which is what caused this plague of locusts in the first place.

Migratory paths

There are two paths for desert locusts to enter China:

One is to fly across the Tibetan plateau. In this cold season, the probability of swarms crossing the plateau, which is more than 4,000 meters above sea level, is very small.

The second is to enter Bangladesh from India, then fly into Myanmar, and from there into Yunnan