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• Locust Attacks not over as operations carried out in Gujarat and Rajasthan

  The Indian agriculture can’t seem to catch a break this year, with COVID-19 lockdown affecting their sales in April and May to record production to locust attacks to a good monsoon, and now floods in many regions have made it nothing short of a roller…

• Good News: Parliamentary Committee meets tomorrow to discuss the Impact of Locust Attacks in the country

  The Parliamentary committee will meet for the first time since the COVID-19 outbreak in March, to discuss the impact of locust attack on the farming sector and the need for a national policy to deal with it. The committee will also do a stock-taking on…

• FAO Welcomes Additional 15 euros million from the European Union to fight Desert Locusts

  The Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Qu Dongyu, today welcomed a 15 million euros contribution from the European Union to fight the Desert Locust upsurge in East Africa as a new wave of locusts is emerging in the region.…

• New Dimension in Locust Control! Air Chemical Spraying Starts with Bell Helicopter in 2.5 Lakh Hectares Area

  Amid the corona crisis, control operations to check damage to crops from locust attacks are continuing with full swing. As per recent reports, new dimension added in locust control activities with chemical spraying in targeted areas started with a Bell Helicopter taking its first sortie…

• Locust Attack! IAF Develops Indigenous Airborne Locust Control System on MI-17 Helicopter

  Anticipating the massive Locust attack across the states, Ministry of Agriculture signed a contract with M/s Micron, UK to modify two Mi-17 Helicopters for spraying atomized pesticide to arrest Locust breeding in May 2020. Due to COVID-19 pandemic, the UK based firm would be able…

• Locust Attack! Several Districts of UP including Jhansi, Prayagraj under Threat; High Alert on These Districts

  After crossing Gurugram and the National capital, the swarm of thousands locust has now entered into the several districts of Uttar Pradesh, including Jhansi, Chitrakoot, Prayagraj, Pratapgarh, Bhadohi, Azamgarh and Ambedkar Nagar. As per the recent reports, locust swarms have invaded several districts in the…

• Massive Locust Attack! Swarms of Desert Locusts Reach Delhi after Gurugram; UP on High Alert

  Terrifying swarms of crop-destroying desert locusts have reached Gurugram and outskirts of Delhi after the administration issued a fresh alert of locust attack. As per reports, a swarm of locusts were seen covering the sky near the Cyber Hub area of Gurugram while Delhi's Chhatrapur…

• Fresh Locust Attack in Rajasthan; MP, UP, Gujarat and Haryana also at Risk

  As per latest reports, fresh swarms of locust have entered northern Indian state of Rajasthan from neighboring Pakistan. However, the government has increased measures to counter the threat using different methods including drones.…

• Locust Attack! Control Operations Carried out with Full Swing in Rajasthan, Gujarat and MP

  Amid the hue and cry of Corona crisis, the locust control operation has carried out with full swing mainly in Rajasthan, Gujarat and MP. 62 spray equipment’s (21 Micronair and 41 Ulvamast) are being used by Locust Circle Offices while 200 employees of Locust Warning…

• Locust Attack in Bihar! Official Asked to Stay Alert at Night in Areas under Threat

  Amid the corona crisis, the agriculture department suspects huge locust’s attacks in some parts of the country and especially in Bihar. The agriculture department of Bihar has issued a sound alarm over possible locust attack in the state which may enter through western border.…

• LOCUST ALERT! This Insect is Likely to Threaten India's Upcoming Kharif Crop Season

  There are visuals of locust swarms invading cities in Rajasthan and travelling as far as Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra and Chhattisgarh over the past few weeks. Though, locust incursions are common for border state of Rajasthan and Gujarat between the months of July and October, 2020…

• Drones and Helicopters to be used to Fight Locusts

  Union Agricultural Minister Narendra Singh Tomar held a meeting with both the Ministers of State for Agriculture and Farmer’s Welfare Parshottam Rupala and Kailash Choudhary and Secretary(DAC&FW) Sanjay Agarwal to review the Locust Control Operations. The locust attacks have come at a time when India…

• Maharashtra Agriculture University Experts Guidelines to Tackle Locust Menace

  Parts of Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, and Uttar Pradesh have been facing locusts attack. They are destroying crops and vegetation. In this regard, now an agriculture university has suggested some measures like destroying their eggs & spraying neem oil on crops for tackling threat from…

• 200 Locust Circle Offices Conducting Survey & Control Operations in Rajasthan, Punjab, Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh

  At present 200 Locust Circle Offices (LCO) are conducting survey & control operations in close coordination with District Administration and agriculture field machinery of the affected States. Locust control operations are in full swing in coordination with State Agriculture Departments and Local Administration. In Rajasthan…

• Government Speed up Locust Control Operations But More Locust Swarms to Invade in June

  Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare announced that the operations to control locust influx in many parts of the country has been started mainly to limit the damage this influx can cause for the agriculture cultivation.…

• Locusts Did Not Hit Rabi Crops; Efforts on to Prevent Spread before Monsoon to Save Kharif Crops

  Desert locusts the crop destroying insects have not impacted rabi crops in India but the government efforts are on to eliminate the insects before monsoon in order to save kharif crops, officials from the Locust Warning Organisation (LWO) said on Wednesday.…

• Locusts Attack: Use These Chemicals to Kill & Tackle Deadly Insects

  We all are aware about menacing Locusts attacks all over India. The U.N Food and Agriculture Organization had already warned about Locusts breeding in large numbers on Africa’s Red Sea Coast and in Iran as well. They then travelled through Pakistan to enter Indian Thar…

• Locust Attack: UP CM Yogi Adityanath Sets Up Disaster Relief Team, 14 Districts on Alert

  The Uttar Pradesh government has set up a Disaster Relief Team, which is headed by the Deputy Director, Agriculture Directorate, to deal with locust attacks in several parts of the state. This team will survey various districts where locust presence has been found. It will…

• Locust Attack May Increase the Demand for Agrochemicals: Reports Suggest

  The swarms of locusts have been attacking the states of Rajasthan, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh, and Madhya Pradesh since many days. While these attacks have raised the concerns of the farmers coupled with the lockdown crisis, it might give agrochemical companies a boost in the…

• SEVERE LOCUST SWARMS IN INDIA, in the midst of COVID-19

  2020 could get even worse. I am even getting a feel that 2020 is the last year of human kind is it so? Climate change is for real and we face unreal weather conditions, cyclones and also facing threats like locust swarms too. There's a…

• Worst Locust Attack in Maharashtra since 1993; Alert in Mathura and Delhi as Swarm Expands Area

  After Amphan created havoc in Bengal and Odisha, now its locust attack which has led to total wreckage in Maharashtra. As per reports, Maharashtra has witnessed the first major locust attack since 1993. Moreover, many parts of India are under worst locust attack and the…