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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Locust threat is bigger this year, warns Agriculture Ministry monitor -Mohammed Iqbal

Locust threat is bigger this year, warns Agriculture Ministry monitor -Mohammed Iqbal

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published Published on May 27, 2020   modified Modified on May 28, 2020

-The Hindu

A huge challenge is likely to emerge when the swarms flying over 20 districts in Rajasthan start breeding.

Jaipur: The threat of locusts, which have invaded vast swathes of land in Rajasthan and entered neighbouring Madhya Pradesh, is bigger this year in comparison with the damage caused to standing crops in a limited area in 2019. The tropical grasshoppers have been crossing over to India via Pakistan’s Sindh province since April 11.

The Union Agriculture Ministry’s Locust Warning Organisation (LWO), headquartered in Jodhpur, said on Wednesday that the locusts that came last year, after a gap of 26 years, were mature and had affected 12 districts of the State. “This time, the locusts are immature and have crossed the India-Pakistan border soon after their birth,” LWO Deputy Director K.L. Gurjar told The Hindu.

Immature locusts, which are not fully grown, have the capacity to cause more harm as they have a longer lifespan. Dr. Gurjar said the breeding grounds in Balochistan were responsible for the movement of 10 to 12-day-old locusts towards the Thar desert, from where they were flying huge distances in search of food. The grasshoppers, which flew out from Sudan and Eritrea on Africa’s Red Sea Coast after excess rains, were earlier breeding in Iran.

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The Hindu, 27 May, 2020, https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/locust-threat-is-bigger-this-year-warns-lwo/article31689657.ece?homepage=true


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