With new inventions, India will be able to fight locusts, says Modi

Record ID: 1555179

  • Title: With new inventions, India will be able to fight locusts, says Modi
  • Date: 31st May 2020
  • Summary: People in India's western Surendranagar district drink water from a polluted pond after almost three months of not receiving water from the Narmada river, their traditional source. SURENDRANAGAR, GUJARAT, INDIA (FILE - APRIL 16, 2019) (ANI - NO USE INDIA) VARIOUS OF WOMEN AND GIRLS CARRYING EMPTY POTS AND WALKING A GIRL FILLING A POT WATER FILLING TROUGH COWS DRINKING WATE
  • Embargoed: 14th June 2020 16:26
  • Keywords: India Jaisalmer Narendra Modi agriculture farmers farms insects locusts pesticide pests
  • Location: JAISALMER, RAJASTHAN/NEW DELHI/ PRAYAGRAJ, UTTAR PRADESH, INDIA
  • City: JAISALMER, RAJASTHAN/NEW DELHI/ PRAYAGRAJ, UTTAR PRADESH, INDIA
  • Country: India
  • Topics: Environment
  • Reuters ID: LVA003CG9FR67
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    India will be able to fight locusts' attack and save many crops using new inventions said Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi said on Sunday (May 31) as farmers across the country are battling swarms of locusts.
    A new wave of locust attacks has alarmed India's farmers and experts warn of extensive crop
    losses if authorities fail to curb fast-spreading swarms by June when monsoon rains spur rice,
    cane, corn, cotton and soybean sowing.
    "Be it the central government, the state government, the agriculture department, even administration are using modern resources to save (crops) from the damage of this problem (locusts attack) to help farmers," said Modi while addressing the nation in his radio address.
    "Attention is being paid to new inventions as well and I have belief that we all together will be able to fight this problem that has come on our agriculture department and we would be able to save a lot (of crops)," he added.
    India is battling its worst desert locust outbreak in decades with infestations radiating through
    much of the western states of Gujarat, Rajasthan and Maharashtra, central state of Madhya
    Pradesh and Punjab, and Haryana and Uttar Pradesh in the north.
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