Sushil Manav
Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, May 26
With locusts entering Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh and neighbouring Rajasthan, the fear of the insect swarms invading Haryana has put the state farmers and the agriculture department officials on high alert.
Districts on alert
Sirsa, Fatehabad, Hisar, Bhiwani, Charkhi Dadri, Mahendragarh and Rewari (alert along dists neighbouring Jaipur and Fazilka)
Voracious pests
The state government had already put seven districts--Sirsa, Fatehabad, Hisar, Bhiwani, Charkhi Dadri, Mahendragarh and Rewari —on alert in view of the repeated invasions by locust swarms from Pakistani side since February. But the threat seems serious this time in view of huge insect swarms gathering over Jaipur, a city merely around 160 km from Mahendragarh.
Kaushal said a response team under the department Director General, Vijay Singh Dahiya, had been constituted to coordinate with deputy commissioners, who had been named nodal officers.
Surender Dahiya, department Additional Director and in-charge of response team operations, said the locust swarms were coming from East Africa and entering India via Pakistan.
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