More locust attacks can take place, FAO asks farmers to stay alert for one month

06/07/2020Posted on
After 27 years in MP, large locust attack, Threat on Moong crop of 8000 crores

The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has asked the country to be vigilant for the next one month regarding the locust attack. The FAO has issued this warning at a time when the country is facing the biggest attack of locusts in the last 26 years. The government is using modern equipment and technologies such as drones and helicopters to control locusts in such situations.

Significantly, the state of Rajasthan located on the western border has been the most affected by the locust attack. Apart from Rajasthan, states like Madhya Pradesh, Punjab, Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh, Haryana and Bihar have also been affected. A statement issued by the FAO said that after the monsoon rains, the locust of the Indo-Pakistan border from the northern states to the northern states could again return to Rajasthan.

Source: Navbharat Times

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Helicopter services are now being sought to control locusts

02/07/2020Posted on
Locusts team knocked in Madhya Pradesh, Can cause heavy damage to crops

Locust attacks have been taking place in states like Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh for the last several weeks. In such a situation, several efforts have been made for locust control campaigns in India, due to which locust control is also getting success. In this episode, helicopters are also being used to control the locust team.

The Union Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Minister Shri Narendra Singh Tomar flagged off a Bell helicopter with spray equipment. The helicopter will leave for the Air Force Station at Uttarlai, Barmer, where it will initially be stationed and will control the locust attack in different areas from there.

The helicopter will be operated by a single pilot and has the capacity to carry 250 liters of pesticides at one go. This helicopter will spray pesticides in an area of ​​25 to 50 hectares at a time.

Earlier, India has also done something to control locusts, which is being praised all over the world. Actually, India has resorted to drones for locust control and has also become the first country in the world to do so.

Source: Krishak Jagat

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India became the first country in the world to control locusts by drones

25/06/2020Posted on
India became the first country in the world to control locusts by drones

Locust team attacks have been taking place in states like Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh for the last several weeks. In such a situation, several efforts have been made for locust control campaigns in India, due to which locust control is getting success. India has done something to control locusts, which is being praised all over the world. Actually, India has resorted to drones for locust control and has also become the first country in the world to do so.

Locusts causing heavy damage to crops are being wiped out by air spraying with the help of drones. The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations has also praised India for this success achieved on locusts.

According to the news, this work is being carried out with the help of the Agriculture Department, Local Administration, and Border Security Force of many states of the country. Locust control work has been successfully completed in about 114,026 hectares in Rajasthan, Punjab, Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, and Chhattisgarh.

Source: Krishi Jagran

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Locust Team’s big attack on Bhopal, heavy damage to moong and vegetable crops

15/06/2020Posted on
Locusts team knocked in Madhya Pradesh, Can cause heavy damage to crops

For the past few weeks, locust attacks have been taking place in several districts of Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh. In this episode, locusts attacked Madhya Pradesh’s capital Bhopal on Sunday evening. Millions of locusts spread from Hoshangabad Road to Barkheda Pathani, AIIMS and Awadhpuri areas.

According to reports, the locust team entered Bhopal via Vidisha from Berasia. On Saturday night, the administration received news of the locust in Berasia. From Berasia to Vidisha Naka, the Agriculture Department had made arrangements to stop the locusts, but on Sunday evening the locust team entered Bhopal.

However, the Agriculture Department is making arrangements to deal with the locust team. For this, the Agriculture Department has prepared a team who will kill them by spraying chemical on locusts. For this, help of fire brigade will also be taken.

Before Bhopal, locust teams damaged crops in Vidisha. It is being told that the grasshopper team has attacked here for the fourth time. Here, the crops of moong and vegetables have suffered heavy losses in 6 villages.

Source: Bhaskar

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12 km long locust team reached Rajasthan, can damage crops in UP and MP

12/06/2020Posted on
After 27 years in MP, large locust attack, Threat on Moong crop of 8000 crores

For the last few weeks, locust teams have been seen in many states of India. These locusts enter Rajasthan from Iran through Pakistan and then cause heavy damage to crops in the inner states of India. It is reported that more than 9 new locust teams from Pakistan have reached different districts of Rajasthan and they may soon cause damage in many areas of Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh.

The Department of Agriculture is also on alert to see the possibilities of these new locust teams having reached Rajasthan in Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh. In the coming days, the direction of the wind will decide whether it enters other states. If the wind direction does not change, the 12-km locust team will enter MP and UP within the next few days.

Source: Jagran

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How to protect crops from Locust attack

02/06/2020Posted on
How to protect crops from Locust attack
  • The locust party lumps the crops within a few hours, as well as eliminates all the greenery of the tree on which it sits. Therefore, upon seeing the locust party without delay, immediately inform the administration.
  • To remove or drive them out of the area, they should be blown away by blowing sound equipment.
  • Make a fire in your fields, bursting firecrackers, noising thali, drums, can also make a loud sound by removing the tractor’s silencer.
  • If you see a bunch of locusts sitting in your fields in the evening, then cultivate the field at night. Apart from this, run the pillar behind the cultivator, iron pipe, or any other similar item through the dam. By doing this, the land behind will be flat again and the locust will die by pressing into it.
  • The places where the locusts lay eggs can be destroyed by digging or by filling water or plowing. Or Malathion 5% powder should be burnt at @ 10 kg per acre.
  • Nymphs of locust coming out of the eggs are not able to move in the first and second stages, so they should be destroyed. In the third stage, they start walking in the herd, so dig a trench about 2.5 feet deep and 1 foot wide in the walking direction so that Nymphs of locust fall in it and then destroy it by pressing into the soil.
  • Locusts can be killed by spraying them with pesticides.
  • For locust control, Chlorpyrifos 20% EC @ 480 ml or Chlorpyrifos 50% EC @ 200 ml or Deltamethrin 2.8% EC @ 200 ml or Lambda-cyhalothrin 5% EC @ 160 ml or Lambda-cyhalothrin 10% WP @ 80 gm or Malathion 50% EC @ 740 ml pesticides can be used on these locusts @ 200 liters of water per acre. 
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Madhya Pradesh Agriculture Minister announced compensation in view of large attack of locust party

28/05/2020Posted on
Locusts team knocked in Madhya Pradesh, Can cause heavy damage to crops

Crop’s biggest enemy locust team has knocked In many areas of Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, and Uttar Pradesh. Officials of the Agriculture Department say that such a big attack of locusts has occurred especially in Madhya Pradesh after 27 years. Given this large locust attack, precautionary steps are also being taken by the government.

On this issue, Agriculture Minister of Madhya Pradesh Shri Kamal Patel said that a survey of the losses caused to farmers due to the locust outbreak will be conducted. The survey work will be done by forming a joint team of staff of the Revenue Department and Agriculture Department. In this survey, the farmers who have suffered a significant loss will be compensated under RBC 6 (4). Along with this, Minister Shri Kamal Patel said that the necessary instructions for this from the state level should also be issued soon.

Source: Nai Dunia

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After 27 years in MP, large locust attack, Threat on Moong crop of 8000 crores

26/05/2020Posted on
After 27 years in MP, large locust attack, Threat on Moong crop of 8000 crores

Crop’s biggest enemy locust team has knocked strongly in Madhya Pradesh after many years. Officials of the Department of Agriculture say that such a large attack of locusts has occurred in Madhya Pradesh after 27 years. Not only this, but the attack is also expected to continue till the monsoon.

These locust teams, which have entered Rajasthan from Pakistan and Madhya Pradesh from Rajasthan, have spread to many areas of Madhya Pradesh via Malwa Nimar. To avoid this, farmers are using drums, thali, crackers, and sprays so that these teams run away.

According to agricultural experts, if this problem is not controlled in time, it may ruin the mung bean crop of Rs 8000 crore. Not only this, the risk of cotton and chilli crop has also remained.

However, to avoid this problem, farmers should form groups at their level at night and monitor the fields as locust teams sit in the fields to rest at 7 to 9 pm and cause great damage to the crop overnight.

Source: NDTV

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Locusts team knocked in Madhya Pradesh, Can cause heavy damage to crops

19/05/2020Posted on
Locusts team knocked in Madhya Pradesh, Can cause heavy damage to crops

The largest enemy of your crops, Locusts team has now started coming from Rajasthan to Madhya Pradesh. This information was given by Ajit Rathore, Deputy Director, Agriculture Welfare Department, Mandsaur. Let us know that it’s an outbreak in Neemuch district of Madhya Pradesh has started to be seen on crops.

These locusts eat the green leaves of crops immediately. These locusts simultaneously attack in large quantities and cause great damage to the crop.

These locusts fly around during the day and sit at night. To avoid the locust outbreak, Ajit Rathore has requested all the farmers to run the cultivator in the night time if they see the locusts sitting in their fields together in the evening. Apart from this, he said that run the pillar, iron pipe, or any other such thing behind the cultivator. By doing this, the land behind will be leveled again and the locusts will die.

Explain that if these locusts are alive, then they will end the greenery of the fields. They eat all the green leaves and destroy them.

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