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    Locust News

    More swarms expected; tech keeps locusts at bay

    A swarm of locusts seen around Aliganj and Vikas nagar areas in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh on July 12, 2020.
    India News
    Updated 2233 days ago

    Locusts arrive in Gujarat from Somalia via Pakistan

    Swarms of locust in Bikaner. Locust swarms are reportedly damaging crops around the area creating a threat on the livelihood of farmers.
    India News
    Updated 2241 days ago

    Fighting locusts: Govt carries out operation covering 3 lakh hectare area across states

    A man holds a locust in Bikaner, Rajasthan.
    India News
    Updated 2243 days ago

    Locusts leave behind trail of destruction in Uttar Pradesh’s Sitapur district

    Farmers in various parts of the state have been using different tactics, including desperate measures -- beating steel utensils during late afternoons and evenings, playing loud music at night, creating wood-fire and running the tractor inside their fields -- to scare away the locusts.
    Cities
    Published 2245 days ago

    Declare locust menace a national disaster, Rajasthan minister urges Centre

    Giving information about crop loss in the state due to locusts, state agriculture minister Lalchand Kataria asked the Agriculture Insurance Company to pay the outstanding insurance claim of Rs 380 crore for Kharif-2019 of farmers as soon as possible.
    Cities
    Published 2246 days ago

    Rajasthan: Locusts destroy crops in Dholpur

    Locust swarms are reportedly damaging crops around the area creating a threat on the livelihood of farmers in Rajasthan.
    Cities
    Updated 2250 days ago

    Crunch, crunch: Africa’s locust outbreak is far from over

    In this photo taken Tuesday, March 31, 2020, a swarm of desert locusts flies in Kipsing, near Oldonyiro, in Isiolo county, Kenya. Weeks before the coronavirus spread through much of the world, parts of Africa were already threatened by another kind of plague, the biggest locust outbreak some countries had seen in 70 years, and now the second wave of the voracious insects, some 20 times the size of the first, is arriving.
    World News
    Updated 2252 days ago

    FAO sounds high alert for India for next 4 weeks over locust

    A swarm of locusts flying over a field at Dongra Ahir village, in Mahendragarh district, Haryana. (Photo by Manoj Dhaka/Hindustan Times)
    India News
    Updated 2258 days ago

    Locust threat still looms over GB Nagar, district to remain on alert for July

    On Saturday, a large swarm of the locusts had entered the city during afternoon hours from Faridabad, flew over some of the district’s villages, made a pit stop at Muhamadour Jadaun village and later entered the Bulandshahr district.
    Cities
    Updated 2258 days ago

    News updates from Hindustan Times: After Gurugram, locust swarm seen in UP’s Kasganj and all the latest news

    Seven teams with sprayer mounted on vehicles have been arranged to tackle the locust issue.
    India News
    Updated 2259 days ago

    India first nation to control locusts through drones: Agriculture Ministry

    More control teams from Rajasthan have been moved to Haryana and Uttar Pradesh to help control operations being carried out to ward away locusts in these two states, the release said.
    India News
    Published 2259 days ago

    Locust swarms reach NCR, race over to UP

    Locusts swarm MG Road, near MGF Metropolitan Mall, in Gurugram on Saturday.
    India News
    Updated 2259 days ago

    Haryana issues high alert after swarms of locusts enter Rewari, Gurugram

    A month ago too Haryana had issued a high alert after locust swarms had attacked crops in neighbouring Rajasthan and a few other states, but luckily the insects had moved away from the state.
    Cities
    Updated 2260 days ago

    Locust swarms seen in several areas in Gurugram

    On Friday, locust swarms had entered as many as 36 villages in Mahendergarh district and some areas of Rewari in Haryana.
    India News
    Updated 2260 days ago

    Locusts return to Bhopal, spotted over secretariat and CM’s house

    Earlier, two separate groups of desert locusts were spotted in Bhopal for the first time this year in mid-May, when they had entered MP’s Kolar Road and Bairasia from Rajasthan.
    Cities
    Updated 2270 days ago

    Locals in Rajasthan’s Ajmer clang utensils to keep locusts at bay

    Children and women were seen clanging utensils on their roof.
    Cities
    Updated 2277 days ago

    Jharkhand’s border districts on high alert over probable locust attack

    The Minister said there is less chance of Jharkhand facing the locust attack.
    Cities
    Updated 2284 days ago

    Odisha to alert 15 lakh farmers with text and voice messages about locusts

    creating a threat on the livelihood of farmers. (PTI Photo) (PTI30-05-2020_000030B)
    India News
    Published 2285 days ago

    New swarm of locusts invades Rajasthan, fifth to enter state in 4 days

    Since the first locust swarm invaded the state’s Sriganganagar district from Pakistan’s Baluchistan on April 11, as many as 25 swarms have entered Rajasthan, said Locust Warning Office deputy director L K Gurjar.
    Cities
    Published 2285 days ago

    Drones used to kill locusts in Jaipur

    Heavy rain that continued until 10.30 pm , in addition to the difficult terrain, impeded Saturday night’s operation.
    Cities
    Published 2286 days ago

    Meant to eradicate locusts, pesticides affect soil, crops

    One of the options with farmers is to dig trenches around their farms to prevent hoppers from entering.
    India News
    Updated 2288 days ago

    DGCA says locust swarms pose threat to aircraft during landing and takeoff phase, issues guidelines

    Pitot and static sources can also get partially or fully blocked while flying through locust swarms, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation said.Photo:-HT
    India News
    Updated 2289 days ago

    High alert from Delhi to Karnataka over probable locust attack

    Another swarm from Pakistan is expected to enter India around mid-June, which would provide fuel to locust activity in the region.
    India News
    Updated 2289 days ago

    About 90,000 hectares hit by locust in 20 Rajasthan districts

    Huge swarms of locusts sitting on the trees in the village in Jaipur
    Cities
    Published 2290 days ago

    Delhi issues advisory to tackle locust threat as capital braces for attack

    Huge swarms of locusts sitting on the trees in the village in Jaipur on Monday.
    India News
    Updated 2289 days ago

    Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh employ drones to kill locusts

    The agriculture drones are being used to kill the pests and the Centre will provide additional drones to the states to control the spread of the locust in the coming days. (HT photo)
    India News
    Updated 2290 days ago

    Pakistan new breeding ground of locusts, say experts

    A man holds a locust in Jaipur. Swarms of locusts entered western India from Pakistan and has spread to five states.
    India News
    Updated 2291 days ago

    From loud music, to beating utensils and spraying: How farmers are dealing with locust attack

    The crop munching insects currently headed to Dausa and Karauli districts in Rajasthan may tilt direction towards Delhi if wind patterns change, experts have warned.
    India News
    Updated 2291 days ago

    Farmers in MP’s Jabalpur arrange water tankers, chemicals against locust attack

    Meanwhile, farmers in Budhni and Nasrullaganj areas of Madhya Pradesh’s Sehore district have been beating utensils in a bid to drive away locusts.
    Cities
    Updated 2291 days ago

    Wind patterns unpredictable, locusts may tilt towards Capital

    Experts warn that if wind patterns change, the locusts currently headed to Dausa and Karauli districts in Rajasthan may tilt direction towards Delhi
    India News
    Updated 2290 days ago
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