Krishi Vigyan Kendra issues precautionary measures as swarms of locusts arrive in Delhi, neighboring places
New Delhi: The enormous swarms of locusts attacked Delhi and the neighboring locations on Saturday (June 27) forcing the official authorities to situation excessive alerts and precautionary measures.
In the nationwide capital, the south and west districts have been placed on excessive alert and the Development Secretary, Divisional Commissioner and Director Agriculture & Horticulture have been ordered to take essential steps.
The Krishi Vigyan Kendra in Delhi issued precautionary measures that will maintain the swarms of locusts away from the fields. The following are the measures that the farmers can take:
– Beat utensils to make clanging noises to maintain the bugs away from the fields.
– Make drains on the sting of the sphere and fill it with water.
– Use the sunshine lure.
– Burn dried chilli that helps in producing a toxic scent and the swarms of locusts run away from it. You may strive burning the chilli powder with grass and add some oil to it.
– You may strive lighting up a hearth in order that the smoke can maintain away the bugs from the fields.
– Insecticides that you should use per hectare in 400l of water:
– 800ml of Lambda-cyhalothrin 5% EC
– 1.2l of Chloropyriphos 50%
– 1.85L OF Malathion 50 EC
– 400ml of Prefronil 400
– 10 kg of Fenvalerate powder
Notably, the swarms of locusts which might be normally in lakhs cowl round 100-150 km in a day and on common, one swarm of locusts eat the meals of over 10 elephants, 25 camels, and a pair of,500 folks in a day. Locusts normally take shelter on bushes from sundown to dawn.
Meanwhile, the Union Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare stated, “Locust swarm was noticed in Jhunjhunu (Rajasthan) on June 26 morning and control teams were deployed to eliminate locusts. Leftover locusts reached Rewari (Haryana) yesterday evening where control operations were undertaken till early today morning.”
They added, “Leftover locusts again regrouped and swarm divided into three groups, one of which moved towards Gurugram, and from there to Faridabad and onwards to Uttar Pradesh. Another locust swarm moved towards Dwarka in Delhi. From there to Daulatabad, Gurugram, Faridabad and this swarm has also entered UP. The third group was seen in Palwal (Haryana) and has also moved towards UP. As of now, no locust swarms are spotted in any city areas.”
Earlier in May, the crop-destroying swarms had rattled Rajasthan, Punjab, Gujarat, Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh.
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