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- Locust swarms persist, no significant crop loss reported so far, says governmentThe government is using drones in Rajasthan, while the Air Force is conducting trials in anti-locust operations using an MI-17 helicopter.
- Locust swarms: Centre takes various measures to prevent crop lossesThe Centre has taken various steps to control locust swarms, and carried out operations in over 1.5 lakh hectares area since April 11 to pr...
- Govt steps up aerial spray of pesticide to fight locust swarmsWith drones already being used for control of locusts, the ministry said a Bell helicopter has been deployed in Rajasthan for use in the sc...
- Locust menace: FAO asks India to be on high alert for next 4 weeksIn its latest update on Friday, the FAO said spring-bred locust swarms, which migrated to Indo-Pakistan border and travelled east to northe...
- Govt's locust operation covers 1.33 lakh hectares in North, West India“Presently 60 control teams with spray vehicles are deployed in these states and more than 200 central government personnel are working tog...
- IAF choppers to fight locust swarmsThe helicopters will be equipped with imported aerial spray machines, agriculture minister Narendra Singh Tomar said while flagging off a h...
- Agriculture ministry eyes drones for night duty in locust fightThe broad specification comes a little over one month after India’s civil aviation regulator granted the agriculture ministry conditional e...
- Rajasthan faces fresh locust attack, Haryana & Gujarat also at riskRajasthan has been put on high alert and there was a risk of swarms entering Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Haryana and Gujarat. Ni...
- India-Pak technical-level meeting on locust issue proposed for June 18: MEAMEA Spokesperson Anurag Srivastava said that last month India had taken an initiative to develop regional cooperation to control locusts an...
- Locust attack likely, this time from AfricaA fresh wave of locust swarms from Africa is likely to infest India in a few weeks when crop planting is in full swing. Monsoon winds can s...
- Government conducts locust control operations in Rajasthan & MP, more attacks likely till JulyAs per FAO’s latest bulletin on status of locust, in India, spring-bred immature adult groups and swarms continued to move east and to the ...
- Government steps up measures to control locustThe union government is coordinating with states governments to restrict locust attacks. 89 fire brigades for pesticide spray, 120 survey v...
- Locust attack: About 90,000 hectares hit in 20 Rajasthan districtsCrop over 4,000 hectares in Sri Ganganagar and 100 hectares in Nagaur have been destroyed. Swarms of locust can travel up to 150 km a day w...
- Overnight operations in Jhansi to clear swarms of locustsA large number of locusts has been eliminated with spraying of chemicals all through the night but a smaller number of those who survived h...
- Rabi crops not impacted by locusts; efforts on to prevent spread before monsoon to save kharif cropsLocusts -- the oldest migratory pest in the world -- entered India after travelling from Africa through Yemen, Iran and Pakistan. After mas...
- Iran agrees but Pakistan drags its feet on India’s offer to control cross-border locust attackFood and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) reports indicate that the Desert Locust population is expected to move from s...
- The missing phenomenon of locust attacksWhether in real life news or films it seems that earthquakes, hurricanes, tsunamis, volcanoes, floods, blizzards, epidemics and nearly ever...
- Locust swarm threatens crop in northern statesAn unprecedented locust invasion in secluded Zanskar valley of arid Ladakh desert has triggered panic in the northern states as the swarmin...
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