China's Airport for Locust Control Operational

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China's Airport for Locust Control Operational

China's first airport for locust control started operation Tuesday in east China's Shandong Province.

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China's first airport for locust control started operation Tuesday in east China's Shandong Province.

Two planes took off from the airport near the mouth of the Yellow River, and sprayed locust insecticide, marking the beginning of an annual fight against the locust plague.

Located in Kenli County in the rural area of Dongying city, theairport has a concrete runway and parking lot totaling about 40,000 sq.m. The runway is 670 meters by 34 meters.

Luo Shouyu, vice-head of the Agriculture Bureau of Dongying city, said the airport, which cost 12 million yuan (about 1.5 million US dollars), will help the province curb the locust plague.

China approved the construction of three airports devoted exclusively to locust elimination in 2001, including the one in Shandong.

The other two, which have not yet been used for locust control,were located in Hebei Province, north China, and Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, northwest China.

The province plans to kill locusts on 330,000 ha of land, including 120,000 ha in rural part of the cities of Dongying and Binzhou on the Yellow River Delta.

Shandong has experienced severe droughts in recent years, with last year's drought reaching a scale seen only once every century.

Many coastal or river beachheads and reservoirs have been reduced to breeding grounds for locusts.

Insecticide has been sprayed both from the ground and the air to kill locusts before flying to farming regions from their breeding grounds, according to the provincial authorities.

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