As the country faces the worst ever desert locust outbreak in three decades, a farm expert has said the government is just focusing on chemical spray on the migratory pest, ignoring other natural ...

Desert locusts visit Pakistan after intervals and mostly stay in the desert belt. However, in January 2020, locusts unusually entered the fertile agricultural fields in Punjab and even moved to the ...

NEW DELHI: As the country faces the worst ever desert locust outbreak in three decades, a farm expert has said the government is just focusing on chemical spray on the migratory pest, ignoring other ...

Ecology and Society, Vol. 12, No. 2 (Dec 2007) (17 pages) ABSTRACT. The inability to organize collective action for pest control can lead to severe problems. This paper focuses on the locust ...

Prof. Rajinder Chaudhary, Advisor, Kudrati Kheti Abhiyan, Haryana has expressed disappointment over the fact that despite the known side-effects of aerial spraying of pesticides, the government’s ...

Locusts spread when environmental parameters such as temperature, precipitation and vegetation density align in a favourable way. These environmental parameters can be monitored and evaluated via ...

Despite assurance from Agriculture Cabinet Secretary Peter Munya, the locust menace is far from being brought under control. A locust invasion from Somalia hit Kenya in December last year and has so ...

China has rolled out contingency measures to closely monitor and control the invasion and spread of desert locusts to ensure the grain harvest and protect ecological safety. Although it is highly ...