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Another locust attack likely in few weeks in India
India Today | 10/06/2020 10:10 AM | Click to read full article
Centre's Locust Warning Organization will press into service 25 drones and buy 60 more vehicle-mounted insecticide spraying machines to counter the attack of locust swarms in the near future. There is every possibility that locust swarms will come towards India from African countries along with monsoon winds rising from the Arabian Sea. Summer and rainy weather is favourable for locusts as they move from one place to another travelling 150 km in a day.