According to a report in India’s The Hindu newspaper, a group of locusts may cross the Indian Ocean and land directly on agricultural land in the Indian subcontinent. After that he will run towards Bangladesh.<\/p>\n
The report said that while India was fighting hard against the coronavirus, another terrible danger was looming over the country. This summer, these locusts can attack the agricultural lands of India. According to official sources, the Indian government is preparing for war on both fronts. One is against the ongoing coronavirus and the other is to ensure food security by preventing locusts.
\nAccording to the source, a group of locusts from the Horn of Africa are attacking along with another group in the desert. A swarm of them is invading India through Yemen, Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, Iran, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan. They are entering a few more areas of India including Punjab and Haryana. The other group could cross the Indian Ocean and land directly on the farmland of the Indian subcontinent. Then go to Bangladesh. Policymakers fear a combined attack by the two groups could plunge India into a food security crisis.<\/p>\n
On April 21, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) warned that desert locusts had invaded East Africa, Yemen and southern Iran this spring. They could also pose a major threat to food security in the Afro-Asian region.<\/p>\n
Locusts may also attack in Bangladesh. This concern was earlier raised by the country’s agriculture department. Since locusts are characterized by the ability to move according to the warming speed of the air and to look for new places as soon as they run out of food, the Department of Agriculture fears that they may invade Bangladesh as well.<\/p>\n
This locust is known to botanists as English locust. In Bengal its name is Patanga, it is a species of grasshopper. Naturally a little shy, this insect, about an inch long, flies in flocks with a large number of members of its own species for food.<\/p>\n
Typically, a single swarm may contain several hundred thousand to one thousand million insects. Then it is called locust. When locusts attack crop fields, it becomes a nightmare for a farmer.<\/p>\n
A full grown locust can eat food equal to its weight every day. In the area they attack, they do not move to another area until the food runs out.<\/p>\n
The FAO says that one square kilometer of locusts can feed 35,000 people with the food they eat in one day. Not only do they eat food, they also reproduce. Source: The Hindu<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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