May 30, 2021 4:11 pm
According to the advisory, the farmers have been asked to be ready with utensils, music, DJs and any other noise making equipment to distract them
August 04, 2020 10:53 am
On Monday, Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi urging him to declare the locust outbreak in the state a “national disaster”.
July 31, 2020 12:57 am
The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) had given clearance for deploying the drones. Tenders have also been issued for engaging five more drones with minimum pay load capacity of 10 litres and flight operation capacity of at least four hours every day.
July 17, 2020 3:34 pm
Besides three drones, as many as 66 fire brigade vehicles are available, as well as 3,540 tractor-mounted spray pumps shall be used for spray purposes. The state government will also acquire fogging machines being bought by the Centre from the United Kingdom (UK) for use on trees.
July 16, 2020 9:45 pm
Since they were first reported in early April, locusts have made their presence felt in various parts of the country.
July 12, 2020 10:41 pm
Several other districts on alert; pesticides, spray pumps stocked up
July 11, 2020 6:19 pm
The control operations have also been done in 1,32,660 hectares area in Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Punjab, Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh, Haryana and Bihar by state governments.
July 07, 2020 10:00 am
The FAO has three categories of Desert Locust situations: outbreak, upsurge, and plague. The current locust attack (2019-2020) has been categorised as an upsurge
July 06, 2020 8:38 am
From New Delhi's Special Representative (SR) mechanism to resolve the ongoing border dispute with China to Food and Agriculture Organization's "high alert" against locust strike, read the top stories from the print edition today.
July 02, 2020 11:40 am
The preparations have been made as per the state government's instructions which has sounded an alarm and issued a warning to all the districts after locust outbreaks were observed in some of the southern districts of the state.
July 13, 2020 12:58 pm
Locusts, popularly known as 'tiddi dal', are short-horned grasshoppers with highly migratory habits and voracious feeding behaviour.