(Bloomberg) -- Desert locust swarms capable of
destroying agricultural crops may reach India and Pakistan ``in
the next days'' from Ethiopia and Somalia, the United Nations'
Food and Agriculture Organization said.
Recent heavy rainfall in Pakistan and western India has
created ``unusually favorable breeding conditions'' for locusts
until October along both sides of the Indo-Pakistan border and in
coastal areas of western Pakistan, the Rome-based organization
said today in an e-mailed press release.
Read more at Bloomberg Commodities News
destroying agricultural crops may reach India and Pakistan ``in
the next days'' from Ethiopia and Somalia, the United Nations'
Food and Agriculture Organization said.
Recent heavy rainfall in Pakistan and western India has
created ``unusually favorable breeding conditions'' for locusts
until October along both sides of the Indo-Pakistan border and in
coastal areas of western Pakistan, the Rome-based organization
said today in an e-mailed press release.
Read more at Bloomberg Commodities News
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