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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Climate Change Brings the Worst Locust Attack in Decades to India -Kabir Agarwal and Shruti Jain

Climate Change Brings the Worst Locust Attack in Decades to India -Kabir Agarwal and Shruti Jain

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published Published on May 26, 2020   modified Modified on May 27, 2020

-TheWire.in

The attack is a highly irregular one, say experts. Farmers on the field feel that the measures taken were too little and too late.

New Delhi/ Jaipur: Large swarms of desert locusts have entered areas in India where they had not been seen since 1993 and have already caused damage to crops in Rajasthan, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, parts of Uttar Pradesh and Maharashtra.

The migratory pest has made several incursions into Rajasthan in the last two decades – including a significant one last year. But this time, the swarms have spread to parts of Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh and even Maharashtra.

Locusts last swarmed Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh in 1993 and have not been seen since 1974 in Maharashtra.

A swarm reached the city of Jaipur on Monday, as urban residents commented on Twitter that 2020 might be the “last year for humankind”.

The real damage, however, is being caused and will be caused in rural India where farmers already bearing the brunt of the COVID-19 induced lockdown and the low prices they have fetched in the last few years, stare at massive crop damage that the locust swarms are capable of inflicting.

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TheWire.in, 26 May, 2020, https://thewire.in/agriculture/locust-attack-india-jaipur-climate-change


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