In The Middle Of the COVID-19 pandemic, India’s action to natural disasters is anticipated to be tested once again this summer when a giant locust storm from the Horn of Africa is anticipated to attack farmlands in South Asia.
Authorities sources told The Hindu that the government was getting ready for a “two-front war”– one, which was continuous against the COVID-19 infections and another to make sure food security– in anticipation of the locust attack on farms.
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” We are preparing for a worst-case scenario. Beginning with the Horn of Africa, and signed up with by desert locusts from breeding premises en path, one locust stream can travel over a land passage passing over Yemen, Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and India, impacting farmlands in Punjab, Haryana and the Indo-Gangetic plain. Another stream passing over the Indian Ocean can straight assault farms in peninsular India, and then head towards Bangladesh. Together, this can trigger a serious food security problem,” the source sa