While Bangladesh is busy dealing with the coronavirus, another terrible danger is looming. That fear had been made before. According to a report in the Hindu newspaper of India, a group of locusts may cross the Indian Ocean and land directly on the agricultural land of the Indian subcontinent. Then head towards Bangladesh.
The report said that while India is fighting hard against the coronavirus, another terrible danger was looming over the country. This summer, locusts may attack India’s agricultural lands. According to official sources, the Indian government is preparing for war on both fronts. One is against the ongoing coronavirus and the other is to ensure food security by preventing locusts.
According to the source, a group of locusts from the Horn of Africa are coming along with another group in the desert. A swarm of them is invading India through Yemen, Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, Iran, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan. They are entering a few more areas of India including Punjab and Haryana. The other group could cross the Indian Ocean and land directly on the farmland of the Indian subcontinent. Then head to Bangladesh. Policymakers fear a combined attack by the two groups could plunge India into a food security crisis.
On April 21, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) warned that desert locusts had invaded East Africa, Yemen and southern Iran this spring. They could also pose a major threat to food security in the Afro-Asian region.
Locusts may also attack in Bangladesh. This fear had been raised earlier by the country’s agriculture department. Since locusts are characterized by their ability to move according to the warming speed of the air and find new places as soon as they run out of food, the Department of Agriculture fears that they may invade Bangladesh as well.
This locust is known to botanists as English locust. In Bengal its name is Patanga, it is a species of grasshopper. Naturally a little shy, this insect, about an inch long, flies in flocks with a large number of members of its own species for food.
Typically, a single swarm may contain several hundred thousand to one thousand million insects. Then it is called locust. When locusts attack crop fields, it becomes a nightmare for a farmer.
A full grown locust can eat food equal to its weight every day. In the area where they attack, they do not move to another area until the food runs out.
The FAO says that one square kilometer of locusts can feed 35,000 people a year. A large locust can eat up to 120 miles of land a day. Not only do they eat food, they also reproduce.
Source: Kaler Kantho
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