NEW WINGS IN WAR ON LOCUSTS
Jun 27, 2020
2 minutes
By Rahul Noronha and Rohit Parihar
The government has mounted a new air defence to take down the swarms of desert locusts threatening crops across western, northern and central India for the past two months. Drones, fitted with insecticide sprayers, have been approved by the Union agriculture ministry for use in locust control. Two states, worst-affected Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh, have started employing
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