This story is from June 27, 2020

Locust swarms enter Haryana

Locust swarms destroyed cotton and bajra crop in around 40 villages of Mahendragarh and Narnaul districts on Friday.
Locust swarms enter Haryana
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ROHTAK: Locust swarms destroyed cotton and bajra crop in around 40 villages of Mahendragarh and Narnaul districts on Friday.
Mahendragarh and Rewari deputy director, agriculture, Jaswinder Singh said the swarms entered from Rajasthan and flew across Mahendergarh district during daytime and had entered Rewari district by the evening. He said the field officers of the department have got inputs of damage to crops in two or three villages of Mahendergarh district but the impact in Rewari is yet to be known.

He said the department has been tracking the movement of locusts and tractor-mounted sprayers are being used to keep them away.
Wary farmers have already been beating drums, tin boxes and any loud instruments to scare away the locusts. They are also being connected via social media groups for information on locusts and launch of remedial operations at the earliest, an official of the agriculture department said.
In May, the Food and Agriculture Organisation had issued a warning of hopper groups in Pakistan moving to desert areas along the India-Pakistan border.
Alerted the agriculture departments of Punjab and Haryana had issued directions to the deputy commissioners in this regard and massive spray operations were undertaken to avert the possible attack.
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