Uzbekistan

Uzbekistan
Uzbekistan is within:
Region:	Asia
Subregion:	Central Asia

Outbreaks

In 2025, Uzbekistan treated over 570,000 hectares—mainly in Kashkadarya, Jizzakh, and Surkhandarya—while 3.9 million hectares were treated regionwide due to increased locust activity driven by warmer and wetter conditions.

Species gallery

• Highlighted species for Uzbekistan
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  Moroccan locust (Dociostaurus maroccanus)
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  Lesser field cricket (Melanogryllus desertus)
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  Italian locust (Calliptamus italicus)
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  Migratory locust (Locusta migratoria)
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  Barbarian grasshopper (Calliptamus barbarus)
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  Blue-winged grasshopper (Oedipoda caerulescens)
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  Common house cricket (Acheta domesticus)
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  Mongolian locust (Oedaleus decorus)
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  Common digging grasshopper (Acrotylus insubricus)

Organizations

Locusts and grasshoppers are typically managed through a national plant protection system led by a country’s plant protection organization, ministry of agriculture, or equivalent biosecurity authority. They are often supported by specialized pest control branches, natural resource agencies, and regional bodies when outbreaks cross borders. These agencies are usually the first point of contact for surveillance, reporting, permits, quarantine decisions, and control operations. If the country belongs to one of the FAO locust commissions, those bodies provide a regional framework for early warning, field surveillance, information sharing, and coordinated response, helping countries align monitoring, contingency planning, and control actions across borders.

Organization name	Acronym	Website	Type	Focus	Geographic purview
Agency of Plant Protection and Quarantine of the Republic of Uzbekistan	UzNIIZR	View	Government	Research	Uzbekistan
FAO Locust Watch in Caucasus and Central Asia	CCA	View	Intergovernmental Organization	Education, Information Hub, Governance	Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia (country), Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Russia, Kyrgyzstan

Resources

Name	Species purview	Year published	Resource link	Descriptive keyword	Language	Geographic purview	Author
Dociostaurus maroccanus Monograph		2023	View	Morphology, Distribution, Ecology, Population dynamics, Management, Identification	Russian	Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Algeria, Russia, Georgia (country), Afghanistan, Iraq, Azerbaijan, Italy	FAO Locust Watch in Caucasus and Central Asia, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
FAO Locust Watch bulletin for locusts in Caucasus and Central Asia			View	Forecasting, Information hub, Emergency alerts, Bundle	English	Afghanistan, Georgia (country), Russia, Uzbekistan, Armenia, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Azerbaijan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan	FAO Locust Watch in Caucasus and Central Asia, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
FAO Locust Watch Locusts in Caucasus and Central Asia (CCA) meeting, research, workshop, survey report collection		2022		Report, Monitoring, Public health, Forecasting, Management, Workshop, Collection	English	Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia (country), Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan	FAO Locust Watch in Caucasus and Central Asia, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
FAO’s technical series on locust management in the Caucasus and Central Asia		2026		Capacity building, Survey, Forecasting, Monitoring, Preparedness, Regional cooperation, Transboundary pests, Locust outbreaks, Management, Series, Pesticide management, Pesticides	English	Georgia (country), Azerbaijan, Armenia, Afghanistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Russia	Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, FAO Locust Watch in Caucasus and Central Asia, Alexandre Latchininsky
Improving national and regional locust management in Caucasus and Central Asia		2015	View	Locust outbreaks, Climate change, Monitoring, Early warning, Public health, Geographic Information System (GIS), Management	English	Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Georgia (country)	Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Italian Locust Calliptamus italicus (Linnaeus, 1758) Morphology, Ecology, Distribution, Population Management		2022	View	Identification, Distribution, Ecology, Biology, Population dynamics, Behavior, Morphology	Russian	Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia (country), Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Afghanistan, China, Algeria, Italy, Spain, Portugal, France, Belgium, Germany, Greece, Bulgaria, Moldova, Romania, Serbia, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Hungary, Belarus, Ukraine, Austria, Kosovo, Cyprus, Turkey, Pakistan	Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Michael Sergeev, Alexandre Latchininsky, M.K. Childebaev, I.A. Vankova, F.A. Gapparov, V.E. Kambulin, E.O. Kokanova, L.B. Pshenitsyna, I.I. Temreshev, M.E. Chernyakhovsky, N.N. Sobolev, V.V. Molodtsov
Migratory locust info poster		2024	View	Biology, Ecology, Monitoring, Species identification, Behavior, Population dynamics, Set	Azerbaijani, English, Georgian, Kyrgyz, Russian, Tajik, Turkmen, Uzbek	Azerbaijan, Georgia (country), Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan	FAO Locust Watch in Caucasus and Central Asia, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Moroccan locust info poster		2021	View	Biology, Ecology, Monitoring, Species identification, Behavior, Population dynamics, Set	Azerbaijani, English, Georgian, Kyrgyz, Russian, Tajik, Turkmen, Uzbek	Azerbaijan, Georgia (country), Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan	FAO Locust Watch in Caucasus and Central Asia, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Practical Guidelines on Pesticide Risk Reduction for Locust Control in CCA		2019		Pesticides, Pesticide management, Management, Set	English, Georgian, Kyrgyz, Dari, Tajik, Uzbek, Azerbaijani	Azerbaijan, Georgia (country), Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan	FAO Locust Watch in Caucasus and Central Asia, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Harold Van der Valk
Practical guidelines on the three locust pests in Caucasus and Central Asia		2019		Management, Biology, Set, Species identification	Russian, Azerbaijani, Georgian, Kyrgyz, Tajik, Turkmen	Azerbaijan, Georgia (country), Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan	FAO Locust Watch in Caucasus and Central Asia, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

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