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The red palm weevil destroys trees from the inside out, severely cutting the farmers' income.             ...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eLEADIN:\u003cbr/\u003e              Palm tree farmers are being terrorised by a tiny insect wreaking havoc on their crops.\u003cbr/\u003e              The red palm weevil destroys trees from the inside out, severely cutting the farmers' income.\u003cbr/\u003e              STORYLINE:\u003cbr/\u003e              These luscious green palm trees may look like the epitome of health, but they risk being destroyed from the inside out.\u003cbr/\u003e              Farmers in El-Wahat el-Bahariya are on the hunt for a dangerous plague - a tiny insect that burrows into the palm trunks and devours the tree from within.\u003cbr/\u003e              It is called the red palm weevil or Rhynchophorus ferrugineus.\u003cbr/\u003e              It is a destructive insect for date palms in Egypt causing disastrous damage to the palm tree and often kills it in its early life.\u003cbr/\u003e              Palm weevils are very active in the el-Wahat el-Bahariya region in the western desert, about 370 kilometres (230 miles) from Cairo.\u003cbr/\u003e              \"The Ministry of Agriculture sends pesticides but they are not sufficient for the palm trees,\" says farmer Tomi Ahmed Mohamed.\u003cbr/\u003e              \"There are more than one million palm trees in el-Wahat el-Bahariya; about three percent are infested with palm weevils.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              But this is a problem that multiplies itself quickly and he expects many more cases.\u003cbr/\u003e              Palm weevils can often go unnoticed until weevils have hollowed out the palm trunk.\u003cbr/\u003e              They interfere with the flow of nutrients through the trunk which eventually kills the tree.\u003cbr/\u003e              \"It causes the top of the tree to fall down on the ground. It goes inside and it's like a saw cutting the palm tree.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              Egypt is the world's top producer of date palms, outranking Iran and Saudi Arabia.\u003cbr/\u003e              It produces 1.5 million tonnes of dates annually, or 17.7 percent of the global production of 7.5 million tonnes, according to the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation.\u003cbr/\u003e              \"We have are around three million palm trees. We can say that at least 30 percent are infested and 30 percent is not a small percentage. If infestations exceed this level, people who have palm trees will face a big problem,\" says Dr. Khaled Abdel Aziz, Professor of Biological Struggle at the Centre of Agricultural Research.\u003cbr/\u003e              The Agriculture Ministry has run campaigns to raise awareness of the palm weevils and gives pesticides to farmers to combat the insects.\u003cbr/\u003e              And it seems that it hasn't come a moment too soon.\u003cbr/\u003e              \"If the situation continues, within 10 or 15 years there will be a complete destruction of this wealth,\" says Mohamed.\u003cbr/\u003e              Palm weevils can fly about one kilometre at a time and can travel several kilometres in a couple of days. \u003cbr/\u003e              This help spread of the infestations and makes them difficult to kill with traditional pesticide sprays.\u003cbr/\u003e              Farmers in el-Wahat el- Bahariya urge the authorities to distribute more free pesticides.\u003cbr/\u003e              \"We call for the Ministry of Agriculture to distribute free pesticides to save palm and date wealth in el-Wahat. Palm is the main source of income in el-Wahat,\" says farmer Mahdy Ahmed Mostafa.\u003cbr/\u003e              Date palm is highly consumed in the most populous Arab country, especially during the holy Muslim month of Ramadan.\u003cbr/\u003e            \u003cbr/\u003e\u003cbr/\u003e              El-Wahat el-Bahariya - 30 April 2018 \u003cbr/\u003e              1. Palm trees in El-Wahat el-Bahariya \u003cbr/\u003e              2. Farmer looking for palm weevils \u003cbr/\u003e              3. Various of dead palm trees that have been infested with the red palm weevils   \u003cbr/\u003e              4. Two farmers looking for red palm weevils inside a palm tree\u003cbr/\u003e              5. Close of a farmer getting palm weevils out of their cocoon\u003cbr/\u003e              6. Various of palm weevils after they have been out of their cocoon\u003cbr/\u003e              7. Farmer getting a palm weevil out of their cocoon\u003cbr/\u003e              8. Close of farmer killing palm weevils\u003cbr/\u003e              9. Wide of palm trees \u003cbr/\u003e              10. Various of dates on the tree\u003cbr/\u003e              11. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Tomi Ahmed Mohamed, farmer in El-Wahat el-Bahariya: \u003cbr/\u003e              \"The Ministry of Agriculture sends pesticides but they are not sufficient for the palm trees. There are more than one million palm trees in el-Wahat el-Bahariya; about three percent are infested with palm weevils and the rest of the trees are to be infested.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              12. Wide of palm trees \u003cbr/\u003e              13. Close of farmer's hand holding a cocoon with a dead palm weevil\u003cbr/\u003e              14. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Tomi Ahmed Mohamed, farmer in El-Wahat el-Bahariya: \u003cbr/\u003e              \"It causes complete damage to the palm trees. Like this one, it causes the top of the tree to fall down on the ground. It goes inside and it's like a saw cuts the palm tree.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              15. Various of dead palm tree that has been infested with red palm weevils\u003cbr/\u003e              16. Wide of farmer walking in palm tree farm\u003cbr/\u003e              \u003cbr/\u003e              Cairo - 5 May 2018\u003cbr/\u003e              17. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Dr.Khaled Abdel Aziz, Professor of Biological Struggle at the Centre of Agricultural Research:\u003cbr/\u003e              \"We have are around three million palm trees. We can say that at least 30 percent are infested and 30 percent is not a small percentage. If infestations exceed this level, people who have palm trees will face a big problem.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              \u003cbr/\u003e              El-Wahat el-Bahariya - 30 April 2018 \u003cbr/\u003e              18. Close of dead palm tree that has been infested with the red palm weevils\u003cbr/\u003e              19. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Tomi Ahmed Mohamed, a farmer in El-Wahat el-Bahariya: \u003cbr/\u003e              \"If the situation continues, within 10 or 15 years there will be a complete destruction of this wealth (resources), which we cannot compensate.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              20. Various of farmer preparing pesticide\u003cbr/\u003e              21. Various of farmer spraying pesticide on palm trees\u003cbr/\u003e              22. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Mahdy Ahmed Mostafa, a farmer in El-Wahat el-Bahariya: \u003cbr/\u003e              \"We call for the Ministry of Agriculture to distribute free pesticides to save palm and date wealth in el-Wahat. Palm is the main source of income in el-Wahat.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              \u003cbr/\u003e              Cairo - 5 May 2018\u003cbr/\u003e              23. 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