During this disastrous pandemic, a new problem arises LOCUST SWARM which has crossed the Indo-Pakistan boundary & now has been sited in Gujarat, Rajasthan, even in Madhya Pradesh & some extent in Maharashtra also.

It is the species of Short-horned Grasshopper which become highly mobile and can travel a long distance. These Locust according to some estimate, can eat food that is enough for as many as 2500 people that to in a single day. So this shows that the Locust Swarm can be a huge threat on the one hand to the Food Security of India & other hand to the farmers who are already now facing agrarian crisis.

Now the question arises What led to their early arrival?

As we all know in 2018 there were Cyclonic Storms in Mekunu & Luban, because of this cyclone it brought the huge rainfall in desert tracks in Africa also. So this created favourable condition for their breeding and these Swarms started attacking the crops in East Africa in last November and after then enter Iran→Pakistan→India.

Now the situation is monitoring by LWO (Locust Warming Organisation). This is being set to be “One of the Worst Locust Swarm in the last 2 decades.”