After COVID-19, India’s next difficulty could be mega-sized locust attack this summertime
” India has suggested to Pakistan that both nations coordinate locust control operations along the border, which India can help with supply of Malathion, a pesticide, to Pakistan,” the authorities said.
Desert locusts present a significant threat to food security in the region, consisting of India. A typical locust swarm, which can differ from less than one square kilometre to several hundred square kilometres, can devastate farmlands. A one square kilometre swarm, containing about 40 million locusts, can in a day eat as much food as 35,000 people, assuming that each specific takes in 2.3 kg of food daily, states the Food and Farming Organisation (FAO)