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Amid Covid-19 crisis, locusts pose another threat to kharif crops in India

As many as 23 swarms of locusts had entered India from Pakistan and experts said they were unlikely to move out before July-end.

A swarm of locusts are seen over a farm at Fatehgarh Salla village near Beawar. Photo: PTI
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A swarm of locusts are seen over a farm at Fatehgarh Salla village near Beawar. Photo: PTI

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Another threat
 
Amid Covid-19 crisis, there is another threat that India is dealing with — locust attack that can destroy food crops. Currently, a thick cloud of locusts is spread over Maharashtra covering an area of a few kilometres from Ramtek to the Madhya Pradesh borders and it is moving eastwards towards Telangana. As many as 23 swarms of locusts had entered India from Pakistan and experts said they were unlikely to move out before July-end. In view of this, many task forces, involving senior IAS officers, have been set up by Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekhara Rao to

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