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Locust menace is far from over in India. According to Food and Agriculture Organasitation (FAO), country should remain on high alert for next one month against locust attack.
‘Early breeding has already occurred along the Indo-Pakistan border where substantial hatching and band formation will take place in July that will cause the first-generation summer swarms to form in mid-August,” FAO said.
India and Pakistan as well as Sudan, Ethiopia, South Sudan and Somalia should remain on “high alert during the next four weeks,” it noted
India has witnessed worst locust attack in last 26 years. However, the government is continuing the control operations to check damage to crops from locust attacks, specially using technology.
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