SANA'A, Jan. 04 (Saba) - Yemen and Kingdom of Saudi Arabia are carrying out a joint survey for desert locust on the border areas near coastline of Red Sea.

In his statement to Saba, Abduh Fara al-Ramih, Director of Monitoring and Combating Desert Locust Center said that a field team from the two countries was implementing the survey, which aims at discovering places of reproduction of the locust in the border line.

Al-Ramih said that the initial results of the survey showed that there were no worried places for reproduction of the locust in Yemen.

He expected reproduction of locust in internal desert regions that witnessed raining last November.

It is annual survey done by the two sides, he said, it is the 6th survey and lasts until 17th January.

He pointed out to the reports of Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) that affirmed inexistence of locust waves in African horn until now.

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