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Major threat of locust attack nearly subsided this season in India: FAO

India has almost overcome any more major threat of locust attack this season. The UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) in its latest update this week noted that “the risk of swarm migration to the India-Pakistan summer breeding area…

After COVID-19, India’s next challenge could be mega-sized locust attack this summer

Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, India’s response to natural disasters is expected to be tested again this summer when a giant locust storm from the Horn of Africa is expected to attack farmlands in South Asia. Official sources said that the…

Chinese locust control team in Pakistan to help fight worst locust plague in 27 years

After the outbreak of the largest locust plague in Pakistan in the past 27 years, on February 24, the Chinese government sent a locust infestation control work team consisting of top Chinese locust control experts to Karachi on a field visit,…