Government has intensified Locust control operations in seven states. These are Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Haryana, Gujarat and Maharashtra. In total 60 ground control teams of ...

The locust control operation is in full swing, mainly in Rajasthan, Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh with the cooperation and coordination of the state agricultural departments, local administrations and ...

A new tool that predicts the behavior of desert locust populations will help national agencies to manage huge swarms before they devastate food crops in Africa and Asia. Desert locusts typically lead ...

This year's locust control program will be one of the most sophisticated ever implemented in Western Australia. The Department of Agriculture says it is using new technology to monitor egg beds to ...

This migratory pest can reach plague proportions, and a swarm covering one square kilometre can consume enough food in one day to feed 35,000 people. Desert locusts typically lead solitary lives until ...

• The number of counties infested with desert locusts now has reduced from 28 to four: Turkana, Marsabit, Samburu and Isiolo. • Turkana South is the worst hit, followed by Turkana West, Turkana ...

In 2020, India faced its worst locust invasion in 27 years, with swarms destroying over 50,000 hectares of cropland across Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Punjab, and Maharashtra. This occurred amid the ...

Dakar — The UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has assumed the lead role in coordinating international efforts to fight the invasion of locusts that is demolishing crops across a wide swathe ...

KARACHI: Locust insects seem to be more powerful as compared to the Sindh and federal government as each expects the other to control further attacks by the insect, Pakistan Today has learnt. It may ...

Gaborone — Government has committed P2.9 million to a control campaign against African Migratory and Red Locusts currently threatening cereal crops and grazing lands in the Okavango and Chobe ...

New Delhi [India], June 23 (ANI): Aerial spraying of insecticides is being done by drones in Barmer, Jaisalmer, Bikaner, Nagore and Jodhpur districts of Rajasthan for locust control, said Union ...