Who pays for the costs of locust treatment?
The NSW Government has allocated $18.5 million in funding to support the 2010/11 NSW Plague Locust Emergency Preparedness Response Plan and the State’s landholders to deal with locusts effectively and efficiently and minimise damage. As part of the NSW Government’s 2010/11 funding commitment, all farmers and public land managers with locusts of sufficient density can obtain free insecticide – and in some cases spraying equipment – from their local LHPA to treat banding locusts. Land managers are responsible for applying the insecticide. Enough insecticide is on hand and on order to treat more than half a million hectares of locusts – five times the amount used in the 2008-2009 campaign. For further information on insecticide please contact you local LHPA.
