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Friday, November 14, 2025
TopicLocusts

Topic: locusts

The ‘insect plague’ that’s eating crops in India & why monsoon may not bring good news

Samyak Pandey -
India has been battling locust attacks with moderate success since December. However, the onset of monsoon could bring more trouble.

Army of 100,000 Chinese ducks ready to fight locust swarms in Pakistan

Alfred Cang -
Swarms of desert locusts have hit major crops in Pakistan’s largest producing regions, weighing on its already fragile economy.

China deploys army of 1 lakh ‘duck troops’ to counter locust attacks

Mohana Basu -
A video released by news website CGTN shows thousands of ducks waddling down a road to confront 400 billion locusts approaching China.

Climate change to blame for ‘plague-like’ locust attacks in Rajasthan, Gujarat, say experts

Mohana Basu -
Erratic rainfall in deserts of Middle East in 2018 created conducive conditions for locusts to breed.

Rajasthan & Gujarat worst hit by locusts, crops in Punjab & Haryana in the clear: Govt

Samyak Pandey -
Oilseed, cumin and wheat crops across nearly 1.7 lakh hectares of farmland were affected by locust swarms that came in from Pakistan.

Pakistan saw a spike in militancy in the New Year, but an 85% drop over the last decade

Simrin Sirur -
An Islamabad think-tank has found 27 people were killed in 15 instances of militancy last month following a ‘historical pattern of a rise in violence at the beginning of the year’.

Locust army from Pakistan ravages oilseed, cumin and wheat crops in Gujarat, Rajasthan

Samyak Pandey -
Agriculture ministry official says it’s the biggest locust attack in Gujarat and Rajasthan since 1993-94 & will take another week to bring under control.

En route from Pakistan, army of locusts are set on their next target – Rajasthan

Laura Oprescu -
Higher rainfall, climate change and lack of preventive measures responsible for menace

Pakistan has been invaded by millions of locusts from Iran

Ismail Dilawar -
Millions of insects have recently invaded Sindh, Pakistan’s second-largest cotton producing province and threaten its prized cotton crop.
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