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India and Pakistan fight a common enemy: locusts

Asia focus, Narendra Kaushik, Published on 16/09/2019

» Madho Singh was struck by panic last month when he saw a swarm of locusts on his farm in Barmer district in Rajasthan, about 150 kilometres east of the India-Pakistan border. He immediately alerted a village officer, who put him in touch with the Locust Warning Organisation (LWO).