Jaipur: After a control operation on Tuesday in Dausa district of Rajasthan, grasshopper parties have attacked the Karauli district and other cities bordering Uttar Pradesh. Not only this, after the locust parties attacked many places in Madhya Pradesh, but they have also issued information about the attack in Nagpur and Wardha districts of Maharashtra. Due to this, a high alert has been announced in 10 districts adjoining Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan in Uttar Pradesh. UP officials said that orders for heavy spraying of chemicals have been issued at night in the districts bordering the two states. According to information received from the sources, Uttar Pradesh Deputy Director of Agriculture Kamal Katiyar says that orders have been issued to keep chemicals ready in the districts bordering Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh by spraying tractors, power sprayers and fire brigade trucks. All farmers are spraying pesticides at night in the fields.
Katiyar said that a group of locust parties were seen in Jhansi forest on Sunday, which has been controlled by the state and central teams by 40 percent by spraying chemicals. Due to the direction of the wind, this locust party is expected to enter Mahoba district. Therefore, Mahoba officials have been asked to be on high alert. In Jhansi, grasshoppers have damaged vegetables in an area of about 25 hectares. At the same time, it has been learned that for the grasshopper team reached in Karauli, Rajasthan, they said that due to this, along with Jhansi, Lalitpur, Jalaun and Auraiya districts bordering the border, they kept the districts adjacent to them Hamirpur, Kannauj, Etawah and Kanpur on high alert. has gone. He said pesticide spraying campaign will be conducted in these districts at night.
Preparations have been made in Mathura also It has been learned that preparations have been made in Mathura a due to the possibility of an attack of locust parties. Sarvaghiram Mishra, District Magistrate of Mathura said, 200 litres of Clopiriphos has been kept in reserve and orders have been issued to stop the supply of this chemical outside the district in the area. Jhansi District Magistrate Andra Vamsi said, "The villagers have been told to tell the control room as soon as the locust teams appear." The fire department has been asked to keep trucks loaded with chemicals ready for emergency situations.
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