How colonial India fought locust attacks – and what we could learn from those tactics

One simple strategy: protect birds that eat the predatory insects.

Pallavi Das

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Vineet K Giri

· May 30, 2020 · 07:30 am

Pakistan’s solution to the locust invasion? Turn the pests into chicken feed

The idea is based on a pilot project carried out in Okara district in February.

Rina Saeed Khan

· May 28, 2020 · 08:30 pm

After Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and UP, locusts invade eastern Maharashtra

Agricultural department personnel have begun to spray chemicals on crops and other vegetation to save them from the pests.

Scroll Staff

· May 26, 2020 · 07:35 pm

Locust attacks threaten crop damage in 17 UP districts; third state to be affected

The crop-eating pests have ravaged farms in Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh.

Scroll Staff

· May 25, 2020 · 01:42 pm

Both Kodagu and Kerala are fighting off an invasion of giant snails – but only one has found success

The foreign pest, which is thought to have arrived in India through trade routes, devours tender leaves and stems, completely destroying plants.

Arathi Menon

· Aug 04, 2019 · 01:30 pm

Draft Bill on regulating pesticides could punish farmers who use spurious products, experts fear

The proposed law is almost identical to the United Progressive Alliance’s 2008 Pesticide Management Bill.

Mridula Chari

· Feb 23, 2018 · 07:30 am

Why insects just happen to die on the premises of terror-accused Sanatan Sanstha

Shubhra Dixit

· Sep 21, 2015 · 02:38 pm