Russians are being told by Russian propaganda that Ukrainian fighters have been breeding locusts from the United States in a warehouse in Luhansk Oblast, from which the insects were deployed to attack ...

BMC has confirmed that it hasn’t received any warning from Centre or the state about locusts heading to Mumbai. The Locust Warning Organisation (LWO) under the Union agriculture ministry clarified on ...

The locust outbreak was reported in May 2019 after 26 years, and grasshoppers returned in December-January period to cause extensive damage, the officials of the Locust Warning Organisation (LWO) said ...

Huge swarms of locusts are sweeping through western and central India. Locusts, which are part of the grasshopper family, are highly mobile and can migrate across different countries and cause extreme ...

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Agriculture Cabinet Secretary Peter Munya has warned of a second wave of desert locusts next month. In December 2019 and early 2020, Kenya experienced the worst locust invasion in 70 years as swarms ...

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan is likely to import insecticides from arch-rival India to brace itself for any locust attacks this summer, bypassing a ban on trade between the neighbouring nations. A ...

KARACHI, Pakistan (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - To many farmers in southeast Pakistan, an impending locust attack when summer crops of cotton, sugarcane and rice are being sown, and fruit and ...