While farmers in some areas of Madhya Pradesh's Sehore district have been beating utensils in a bid to drive away locusts that have attacked their farms, farmers from Uttar Pradesh came up with another unique idea. Apart from sprinkling disinfectants, farmers in Uttar Pradesh installed a huge DJ setup in the middle of the field to to protect their crops from locusts.
A police official took to Twitter to share a video of the same and wrote, "The DJ is effective not only for dancing and partying but also for warding off attacks by locust swarms. Days change! You can make sounds or even beat the plates. #DiscJockey #Locustswarm #locustswarms #Locusts #Locustsattack #LocustInvasion #LocustSwarmsAttack."
The video soon went viral on social media and netizens took to the comments section to react to it. A user commenetd, "We Indians are so fast in creating new ways, whatever the situation be."
Another wrote, "What an Idea sir ji....... Great."
More than 40,000 hectares of vegetable crops, pulses, cotton are under direct atttack of these swarms of inscets that have flown across at least four states and have created havoc.
Swarms of desert locusts occur irregularly around the Monsoon months, but this time the attack started early starting end of April. In fact as the summer peaked Gujarat, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Punjab all faced these attacks one after the other.
Usually locust swarms enter the desert areas of India through Pakistan for breeding in June-July. The swarms fly high and travel long distances aided by strong westerlies coming from Pakistan. Most of them settle on trees during the night and mostly fly during the day, reports said.
