Locusts ravage: More invasions predicted after panic grips Mumbai and Delhi

New Delhi: Already crippled by a dwindling economy besieged by the coronavirus pandemic, millions of swarming locusts ravaging their crops is the worst nightmare farmers in North India could have possibly had. But it has turned out to be true.

 

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Farmers in Rajasthan, Punjab, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat and Maharashtra are in the midst of the worst locust attack in the last 27 years.

The locusts, which arrived late year into Rajasthan from Pakistan, have affected thousands of farmers in several states in the northern and central India.

 

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Authorities in Delhi, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Telangana and Karnataka too sounded alerts Thursday to the possibility of locusts entering their territories while United Nation’s Food and Agriculture Organisaion (FAO) has warned that the pests could reach as far east as Bihar and Odisha in the coming weeks.

 

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