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Iran brings in military to battle locusts threatening crops worth billions

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Iran has called in its military to help fight locusts that have invaded the south of the country, threatening to destroy crops worth billions of dollars, according to Iranian media reports.

The locust invasion, seen as the worst in decades, compounds problems facing Iran, already hard-hit by the coronavirus outbreak at home and seeing its oil exports sink to a record low as the crisis sharpens the impact of US sanctions, which further limit shipments.

Mohammad Reza Mir, a spokesman for the ministry's Plant Protection Organization (PPO), said the desert locusts had attacked more than 200,000 hectares of orchards and farmland in seven of Iran's 31 provinces, the semi-official news agency ILNA reported.

The affected areas, stretching from eastern Iran on the border with Pakistan to the south-western border with Iraq, were likely to soon increase to 1 million hectares, Mr Mir told ILNA.

"The military have promised to help fight the desert locusts, including by providing all-terrain vehicles for use in areas which are hard to access," Mir told ILNA.

"Last year the military provided personnel and vehicles, and that was a big help."

Mr Mir said anti-locust operations had so far prevented "any damage", without giving details.

PPO's head, Mohammad Reza Dargahi, said last month that locust swarms threatened billions of dollars' worth of agricultural products across six provinces in southern Iran, the daily Financial Tribune reported.

The United Nation's Food and Agriculture Organization estimates agricultural losses to neighbouring Pakistan from locusts could be as high as $3.4 billion for winter crops alone.

The swarms have been travelling from the Horn of Africa through Oman and on to Iran and Pakistan.

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While, locust swarms are not new in East Africa or the Middle East, climate scientists say erratic weather linked to climate change has created ideal conditions for the insects to surge in numbers not seen in a quarter of a century.

This year's swarms are expected to be much larger than in 2019, because their numbers increase on average 20-fold with each generation.

They travel in swarms of between 30 million to 50 million insects, covering a distance of 150 kilometres and devouring up to 200 tonnes of crops per day.



https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-05...ry-against-locusts-threatening-crops/12255464


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Not Halal for us. But we should not waste the protein. Catch them and feed them to ducks, chickens or any bird that will eat them. We then eat the bird.
 
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Iran brings in military to battle locusts threatening crops worth billions

11901470-3x2-xlarge.jpg


Iran has called in its military to help fight locusts that have invaded the south of the country, threatening to destroy crops worth billions of dollars, according to Iranian media reports.

The locust invasion, seen as the worst in decades, compounds problems facing Iran, already hard-hit by the coronavirus outbreak at home and seeing its oil exports sink to a record low as the crisis sharpens the impact of US sanctions, which further limit shipments.

Mohammad Reza Mir, a spokesman for the ministry's Plant Protection Organization (PPO), said the desert locusts had attacked more than 200,000 hectares of orchards and farmland in seven of Iran's 31 provinces, the semi-official news agency ILNA reported.

The affected areas, stretching from eastern Iran on the border with Pakistan to the south-western border with Iraq, were likely to soon increase to 1 million hectares, Mr Mir told ILNA.

"The military have promised to help fight the desert locusts, including by providing all-terrain vehicles for use in areas which are hard to access," Mir told ILNA.

"Last year the military provided personnel and vehicles, and that was a big help."

Mr Mir said anti-locust operations had so far prevented "any damage", without giving details.

PPO's head, Mohammad Reza Dargahi, said last month that locust swarms threatened billions of dollars' worth of agricultural products across six provinces in southern Iran, the daily Financial Tribune reported.

The United Nation's Food and Agriculture Organization estimates agricultural losses to neighbouring Pakistan from locusts could be as high as $3.4 billion for winter crops alone.

The swarms have been travelling from the Horn of Africa through Oman and on to Iran and Pakistan.

11901492-4x3-xlarge.jpg



While, locust swarms are not new in East Africa or the Middle East, climate scientists say erratic weather linked to climate change has created ideal conditions for the insects to surge in numbers not seen in a quarter of a century.

This year's swarms are expected to be much larger than in 2019, because their numbers increase on average 20-fold with each generation.

They travel in swarms of between 30 million to 50 million insects, covering a distance of 150 kilometres and devouring up to 200 tonnes of crops per day.



https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-05...ry-against-locusts-threatening-crops/12255464


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We are sleeping as this pest is wreaking havoc in all over punjab. It can cause food shortages and instability. Government needs to help the farmers or the results will be catastrophic
 
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Locust attacking is a very common thing in worldwide. Prophet Muhammad allowed to eat locusts while they attack.
 
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We are sleeping as this pest is wreaking havoc in all over punjab. It can cause food shortages and instability. Government needs to help the farmers or the results will be catastrophic

Indeed . Have been following this locusts burst for the last two months.

You can follow the situation update on this site :

http://www.fao.org/ag/locusts/en/info/info/index.html


Locust attacking is a very common thing in worldwide. Prophet Muhammad allowed to eat locusts while they attack.

Common , yes.

On this scale , no.

Swarms this size have never been reported in recorded history.

what would be the result of this , no one knows yet , cause as i said , Swarms this size have never been reported in recorded history.

One thing is for sure , if Iran does not take serious action now , come summer , those locusts will form swarms that would immigrate all over Pakistan.

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By God's grace there's no locusts issue in India..... though it was many decades ago....
 
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Not Halal for us. But we should not waste the protein. Catch them and feed them to ducks, chickens or any bird that will eat them. We then eat the bird.
The locusts are halal when they become mature and start eating crops instead of insects but they are not in our main dish and we don't like them and how they look. So let kill them first before they destroy our crops and orchards.

By God's grace there's no locusts issue in India..... though it was many decades ago....
If the threat isn't answered now ,it will be a problem there this time.
 
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Don't eat it when you don't need to...
 
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Economy is down, price of every commodity are already high...n now this thing...i thing every body should stock atleast for an year...like chawal kanak chini n oil....i can be wrong but i am thinking this way
 
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imagine this things being three times bigger than as they are now, they would eat amazon jungles and finish it.
 
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