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The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations has boosted its emergency technical cooperation project to help Iran battle swarms of desert locusts, FAO's representative to Iran Gerold Bodeker was quoted as saying by Financial Tribune daily on Monday.
FAO will grant Iran with a total of 500,000 U.S. dollars under an "urgent action for capacity building" to control desert locust infestation in Iran, Bodeker said.
FAO signed an emergency technical cooperation project with Iran on March 19 to enhance the country's technical capacity for early warning, monitoring and management of desert locusts.
"The project mainly focuses on providing around 320 Iranian experts with the requisite technical knowledge and skills to detect, track, report on and rapidly respond to desert locust infestations," Bodeker added.
He expressed the hope for containing desert locusts effectively across the country.
On March 10, Iran announced that huge herds of desert locusts had arrived in the southern region of Iran.
FAO has predicted that locust swarms could also invade Iran's central province of Kerman and Jazmourian Wetland, an inland basin in southeastern Iran, in their new wave of migration.
