Government’s locust control policy focuses on chemical spray alone: Farm expert Presently, locusts have affected five states -- Rajasthan, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh and Maharashtra ...

Besides the traditional locust control techniques of aerial and ground spraying of various pesticides, innovative methods of community-based locust catching for poultry feed were also successfully ...

The factors influencing the choice of insecticides for locust control are effectiveness, safety in use, relative cost, and the formulations available. The relative importance of these factors varies ...

Chintala has shared safe and effective measures with the government for control of locusts through biological and non-chemical methods, he said.

Kazbek Toleubayev ¹, Kees Jansen ¹, Arnold van Huis ¹, Locust Control in Transition, Ecology and Society, Vol. 12, No. 2 (Dec 2007) ...

It must be ensured that locust control measures do not pollute air and water, said Prof. Rajinder Chaudhary.

The Locust-Tec project aims to enable preventive control to respond as quickly as possible and to limit itself to the smallest possible area, enabling the deployment of alternative control methods ...

To better control locusts in domestic agricultural areas, chemical control methods will be adopted for areas with a high density of the pests, while medium-or low-density areas will use biological ...

A locust invasion from Somalia hit Kenya in December last year and has so far caused destruction to vegetation in 18 counties.

Awais Sadiq Awan Chemical control strategies of locust being carried out in Pakistan are much hazardous to humans Locust is the member of class Insecta, having order orthoptera and family Acrididae.