And, what are we doing to combat it? Good rains can sometimes generate just enough green vegetation that is conducive to egg-laying as well as hopper development. Also heavy rains in the southwest Iran worsened the situation. "After the emergency meeting, an advisory will be issued on steps to be taken to deal with the situation," Rai told . The Maharashtra government reported below 33% of crop loss in 805.8-hectares area in Nagpur, Bhandara, Gondiya and Amravati districts. However, this year, India is experimenting with a different approach.Unlike in the past, the locusts have changed their attack strategy this season and are flying at a greater height – against their basic nature.
In the last few weeks, India has seen one of the worst locust attacks in history. The season of Kharif crops is in danger as the insects consume the food of 35,000 lives. For laying eggs, they require bare ground, which is rarely found in areas with dense vegetation. But the Kenyan government says it needs 20 planes for spraying - and a continuous supply of the pesticide.At the Intergovernmental Authority on Development climate prediction and applications centre, based in Nairobi, researchers have been running a supercomputer model to predict breeding areas that may have been missed by ground monitoring. And, what are we doing to combat it?Locusts are insects that belong to the family of grasshoppers. These areas could become sources of new swarms if not sprayed and create an upsurge. The change in behaviour is triggered by close physical contact, following which they then become inclined to disperse together to find food, a scientist at French research centre CIRAD explained in,According to FAO, an adult locust can eat a quantity equal to its weight – about 2 grams –.But, a single square kilometre of the swarm can contain somewhere between 40-80 million adult locusts. They have also reached Saudi Arabia and Iran to Pakistan and ofcourse India, all while breaking into smaller swarms to travel across the country.Meanwhile, Pakistan declared a national emergency to tackle locusts in January 2020, after predictions estimated that the country will incur a loss of more than 4 billion euros with respect to both summer and winter crops.Subscribe To Our Daily Newsletter And Get News Delivered Straight To Your Inbox.After Wreaking Havoc in MP & Rajasthan, Locusts Enter Maharashtra,Homes Smashed, Crops Ruined: Sundarban Farmers Worst-Hit By Amphan,Keith Cressman, Senior Locust Forecasting Officer, FAO,Devinder Sharma, Agriculture & Trade Policy Expert,Ajayvir Jakhar, Chairman, Bharat Krishak Samaj,Professor Axel Hochkrich, Trier University,18 districts of Rajasthan and almost a dozen districts of Madhya Pradesh. Army begins process to grant Permanent Commission to women officers,Copyright © Also read | Locust attack: A joint fight by India and Pakistan, over the years. Swarms of a locust species attacked banana, rubber and other crops in parts of plantation-dominated districts such as Nilgiris of Tamil Nadu, causing concern among farmers. But further action could not be taken because of the lockdown around the world, and the swarms remained active in Yemen, Oman, Sindh and Balochistan areas. The outbreak began late 2019 in Gujarat and Rajasthan.Three villages in Gujarat’s Banaskantha district, which shares a border with Pakistan’s desert areas, came under fresh locust attacks in January (2020). Desert locusts only lay eggs in moist soil, to keep them from drying out. Crop losses of farmers due to the attacks are now covered under the Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana (PMFBY). The invasion was initially expected to subside by mid-November. A huge tropical locust swarm flying in the sky of Jaipur Tamil Nadu. Locust attacks have been mentioned in almost all ancient texts, right from wall paintings on ancients Egyptians pyramids to the Bible and Koran. Such cover isn’t widespread enough in the deserts to allow growth of large populations of locusts.As individuals, or in small isolated groups, locusts are not very dangerous. Worst locust attack in 26 years: All about the latest threat amid Covid-19 outbreak The Union environment ministry warned in a statement last week that locust … Newspost .
Why is it a threat to India? The Horn of Africa is the … Continue reading "RSTV: IN DEPTH- LOCUST ATTACK" They have not had such an outbreak since the 1960s and is already on alert.The Government of Djibouti estimates that the damage caused by the Desert Locust infestations on vegetation cover (crops and pastures) have already caused a loss of around USD 5 million for the six regions of the country.Cyclones in May and October of 2018 brought heavy rains that gave rise to favourable breeding conditions in the Empty Quarter of the southern Arabian Peninsula for at least nine months since June. The … It might have something to do with the dry environments which is home to this species. The formation of bands is ongoing in the rangelands of the Ethiopian Somali Region; and massive new swarms will arrive from Yemen and Somalia.A swarm even forced an Ethiopian passenger plane off course in December.They are now heading toward Uganda and fragile South Sudan, where almost half the country faces hunger as it emerges from civil war.
The ministry has included admissibility of hiring of vehicles, tractors with spray equipment for spraying of plant protection chemicals for pest control; hiring of water tankers; and purchase of plant protection chemicals for locust control under new norms of assistance under State Disaster Response Fund (SDRF) and National Disaster Response Fund (NDRF). If their breeding is coterminous with that of the kharif crop, we could well have a situation similar to what maize, sorghum and wheat farmers of Kenya, Ethiopia and Somalia experienced in March-April.Historically, locust control has involved spraying of organo-phospate pesticides on the night resting places of the locusts. Tackling large locust swarms is challenging. In India, locusts attacks emanating from the desert area in Pakistan have struck parts of Rajasthan and Gujarat, causing heavy damage to standing crop. * The moderation of comments is automated and not cleared manually by,Copyright © 2020 The Indian Express [P] Ltd. All Rights Reserved,Locust attack: How they arrived, seriousness of the problem, and ways to solve it,Parliament: Lok Sabha leaders reach consensus on curtailing Monsoon Session, Speaker to take final call,NIA arrests 9 suspected Al Qaeda operatives from Bengal, Kerala,India Covid-19 numbers explained, Sept 19: Odisha cases quietly on the rise,The dancing plague that struck many in medieval Europe,https://images.indianexpress.com/2020/08/1x1.png,Locust attack: A joint fight by India and Pakistan, over the years,Why we have a desert locust problem this year and what’s the way forward,Why locusts are being sighted in urban areas, what it can mean for crops,here to join our channel (@indianexpress),Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's most significant judgments and dissents,What VS Gaitonde's seven top selling works mean for the Indian art market,Indus Water Treaty at 60: why there is a need to give it a fresh look,Govt proposes allowing cos with not less than 300 workers to fire staff without its nod,5 unexpected entries in Bigg Boss over the years,Throwback to ultimate Bollywood face-off: Dilip Kumar vs Raj Kapoor on cricket pitch,Watch: Sri Lankan minister climbs tree to inform people about shortage of coconuts,'Marvellous': This Avengers Assemble video with a desi spin has social media hooked,IPL 2020 | CSK win tournament opener vs Mumbai Indians.Why is Dwayne Bravo T20’s original fantasy player?Whichever way Sudarshan TV case turns out, dark days lie ahead,What has Saif Ali Khan been doing in the lockdown?
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