The Kadivuka Bio Security Taskforce has been handed five million dollars by Government in their fight to eradicate termites in Lautoka.

Acting Senior Bio Security Officer, Lemeki Ratucicivi said that they met with the Prime Minister on Friday.

The Taskforce was given $711,000 by Government after the taskforce was set up early this year and majority of this money was used to mobilize their officers and buy a small batch of Termitor - the chemical dust used in fumigating termites.

This five million given to the Taskforce was from the revised National Budget announced yesterday.

Ratucicivi adds the additional $5 million will be used to buy more Termitor and specialist equipment and also used in their awareness campaigns in Nadi and in Ba.

Meanwhile, two Australian specialists - Doctor Brent Peters and Craig Burleigh, who were in the country last week revealed to the Taskforce that the termites could have entered the country through the Lautoka Port through crates or pallets brought in from overseas.

At the moment a total of 936 houses, 16 schools and 2285 trees have been infested.