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The desert locust, eat plants. (AP)
BIJNOR/JAIPUR/INDORE: Leaving behind a trail of the destruction of crops in 18 districts of Rajasthan, and a dozen districts of Madhya Pradesh, an army of the desert locust he has come to Jhansi and Agra, state of Uttar Pradesh, prompting the government to declare the state of alert level. The crop eating pests had first entered into Rajasthan from Pakistan in the second week of April.
In Uttar Pradesh, the locusts are feared to affect the 17 districts — Agra, Aligarh, Mathura, Bulandshahr, Hathras, Etah, Firozabad, Mainpuri, Etawah, Farrukhabad, Auraiya, Jalaun, Kanpur, Jhansi, Mahoba, Hamirpur and Lalitpur.
According to Uttar Pradesh, department of agriculture officialsa large swarm of locusts can eat hectares of farmland within an hour. To deal with the situation, Uttar Pradesh, the department of agriculture has launched a massive campaign to educate farmers on how to keep the threat of the locust in a bay. In Agra, the district administration has deployed 204 tractors mounted with chemical sprays.
On 20 May, the swarms of locusts were spotted in Dausa district of Rajasthan. In five days, they had covered a distance of around 200 km to reach Dausa from Ajmer. Now, the pests have been introduced UP.
In Madhya Pradesh, clouds of locusts have caused devastation in at least 12 districts, the destruction of standing crops in the largest attack in a decade. The swarms first time I came in Mandsaur and Neemuch May 17, and then swept in 10 districts. Mandsaur, Neemuch, Ratlam, Ujjain, Dewas, Shajapur Indore, Khargone, Morena and Sheopur have been the most affected.
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