Video tweeted by RAHUL SRIVASTAV
@upcoprahul.
Farmers and locals have provide you with novel methods to keep at bay the menace of locusts in India.
- News18.com
- Last Updated: May 28, 2020, 11:45 PM IST
As India offers with a pandemic and the aftermath of disastrous cyclone Amphan, locust assault within the a number of states of India has develop into a cause for main concern for farmers and state governments alike.
After Jaipur woke up to the terrifying sight of hundreds of locusts resting on their terraces and swarming round and damaging crops in Rajasthan and MP, swarms of locusts entered Uttar Pradesh’s Jhansi district and will head in direction of Maharashtra’s Ramtek metropolis amid what’s being described because the worst assault in 26 years.
“It is not a new problem and we had been facing it for a long time. This year, the locust attack is the worst in 26 years,” said an official on the Faridabad-based Locust Warning Organisation (LWO), including there’s a coordinated effort to include its unfold. Locusts have earlier been confined to Rajasthan and Gujarat.
Read: In Worst Attack in Yrs, Locusts Swarm Maharashtra, UP, Punjab on Alert; Govt to Deploy Drones
To fight this, the farmers in UP have devised a singular technique to maintain the locusts away from their farms and crops. In a video tweeted by UP cop in Jhansi, Rahul Shrivastava, a automobile fitted with DJ system may be seen blasting music to minimise the potential injury of the crop-hungry locusts.
Along with the video, the cop wrote, “DJ isn’t just for dancing and parties but is also effective in warding off locusts. Everyone sees a new morning, you can make noise or bang utensils to do them away.”
Here are some extra movies of this distinctive method that farmers have applied.
Farmers in UP have devised a singular technique to maintain the locusts away from their farms and crops. Viral movies present a automobile fitted with DJ system, blasting music to minimise the potential injury of the crop-hungry locusts. pic.twitter.com/2yzwZ4Ur5Z
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Besides this, drones, tractors, and vehicles have been despatched out to trace the voracious pests and spray them with pesticides.
The locusts have already destroyed almost 50,000 hectares (125,000 acres) of cropland.
“Eight to 10 swarms, each measuring around a square kilometre are active in parts of Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh,” the federal government’s Locust Warning Organisation’s deputy director Ok.L. Gurjar told AFP.
The native villagers have additionally been requested to make noise by beating ‘thalis’ and bursting crackers to drive the locust swarm away.
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