China will send 1 lakh ducklings to save Pakistan from ‘locust attack’

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According to Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan, China will send one lakh ducks of special kind to save the country from the biggest locust attack of the decade. New duck bugs being sent from eastern China’s Zhejiang province will have front-line weapons in this attack.

Earlier, China has sent a team of experts to Pakistan to understand the situation and advise Pakistan. It is worth noting that before this, China had deployed these ducklings when a similar locust attack took place two decades ago in Shinkiang, China. These ducks eat many locusts in a day. In such a situation, the use of duck instead of pesticide also reduces the cost and also does not harm the environment. The newspaper quoted researcher Lu Lijie of the Zhejiang Provincial Institute of Agricultural Technology as saying that the use of ducks in place of pesticides also reduces costs and damages to the environment.

Lu also said that ducks can do this task more efficiently than other domestic birds. “Ducks like to live in groups and because of this they have more ease of maintenance than chickens,” he says. He also told that a duck can eat more than 200 locusts in a day and they have three times more fighting ability.

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