Children try to drive away desert locusts swarming in the Okara district of eastern Pakistan's Punjab Province on Feb 22, 2020.- Xinhua
BEIJING (Bloomberg): A troop of special Chinese ducks is waiting to be deployed to neighbouring Pakistan to fight a swarm of crop-eating pests that threaten regional food security.
At least 100,000 ducks are expected to be sent to Pakistan as early as the second half of this year to combat a desert locust outbreak, according to Lu Lizhi, a senior researcher with the Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences.
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