This story is from May 29, 2020

Telangana gets ready to thwart locust threat

Chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao has directed the officials to take precautionary measures like keeping fire engines, jetting machines and pesticides to thwart the locust threat.
Telangana gets ready to thwart locust threat
Thousands of locusts have been seen in Maharashtra
HYDERABAD: Chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao has directed the officials to take precautionary measures like keeping fire engines, jetting machines and pesticides to thwart the locust threat.
T gets ready to thwart locust threat
Thousands of locusts were seen over Jaipur on Monday

Thousands of locusts were seen over Jaipur on Monday.
To estimate the travel method of the locusts from time to time and to monitor the measures to avert their entry, the government has appointed a five-member committee with Central Integrated Pest Management (CIPM) plant protection officer R Sunitha, agriculture university principal scientist SJ Rehman, Warangal conservator of forests Mohammed Jalaluddin Akbar, Ramagundam police commissioner V Satyanarayana and Mancherial district collector Holikeri Bharathi.
This committee members will camp in Ramagundam for four days from Friday and would monitor the situation from Adilabad to Bhadrachalam alongside river Godavari by taking chopper rides.
Officials informed the CM that 15,000 litres of pesticide like malathion, chloropyrifos and lambda cyhalothrin liquid have been kept ready on the Maharashtra-Chhattisgarh border. Apart from this, 12 fire engines and 12 jetting machines have been kept ready. KCR asked chief secretary, director general of police and disaster management secretary and principal secretary of agriculture to monitor the situation from Hyderabad and interact with officials of the neighbouring states. “As locusts travel along with wing direction, if the winds blow towards the south, they may travel via Chhattisgarh to
Telangana. Though the chances of locusts entering the state are less, all the districts need to be on a high alert. If they enter, they should be killed on the borders by spraying the pesticides,” the CM said.
The district collectors of Bhadradri Kothagudem, Mulugu, Jayashankar Bhupalpally, Mancherial, Asifabad, Adilabad and Peddapalli and police officers have also been alerted. The CM held a review meeting with officials at Pragati Bhavan on possible entry of swarms of locusts into the state and the impact they could have on crops. He said all the district collectors and police officials in the border districts of Maharashtra and Chhattisgarh have been alerted. Fire engines, jetting machines and pesticides were put in place.
KCR also enquired on the possible direction of locust invasion in the next few days. Officials informed him that the locust swarm that entered the country is moving towards Balaghat in Madhya Pradesh from Maharashtra en route Bhandara and Gondia.
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