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India supplies second batch of 20,000 litres of environment friendly pesticide Malathion to Iran through Chabahar Port to fight the desert locusts menace.
India has supplied a second batch of 20 thousand litres of Malathion 95 percent ULV pesticide to Iran under a Government-to-Government Locust Control Programme.
The consignment reached Chabahar Port and was handed over to Plant Protection Organization, Iran.
External Affairs Ministry said India had approached Iran and Pakistan for a coordinated regional response to the threat to approaching swarms of desert locusts.
It was in this context that Iran had requested the supply of pesticides. There was no response from Pakistan.
India supplied the first tranche of 20 thousand litres of Malathion to Iran in June last year.
The second tranche of 20,000 litres for Iran has been handed over today.