In a video, 10 to 11 convicts are seen attempting to guard the crops sowed on land owned by the jail.
New Delhi:
Inmates clang utensils to scare away a swarm of locusts that entered Firozabad District Jail on Friday.
In a video of the incident, 10 to 11 convicts are seen attempting to guard the crops sowed on land owned by the jail.
#WATCH A swarm of locusts entered Firozabad District Jail yesterday; inmates tried to scare away the locusts by clanging utensils. pic.twitter.com/MRiBCQIblC
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Round 1,700 inmates are lodged in Firozabad Jail, which spans throughout 7 acres of land.
Jail Superintendent Akram Khan mentioned that had inmates not began clanging utensils, the swarms of locusts would have broken the greens and fruits crop.
Within the final week of June, swarms of locusts have invaded a number of districts of Uttar Pradesh, together with Deoria, attacking timber and crops.
The UP Agriculture Division mentioned stories of locust assaults have been obtained from Jhansi, Chitrakoot, Allahabad, Pratapgarh, Bhadohi, Azamgarh and Ambedkar Nagar. He mentioned authorities of the neighbouring districts – Hamirpur, Banda, Fatehpur, Kaushambi, Mirzapur, Sultanpur, Mau and Ballia – have been requested to stay alert.
Swarms of locusts which have crossed over to India from neighbouring Pakistan have been inflicting havoc in Rajasthan, Punjab, Haryana, and Madhya Pradesh ravaging standing crops for over a month now.
India is dealing with its worst locust assault in recent times. The desert locust is a species of locust, a swarming short-horned grasshopper, and poses an unprecedented risk to the meals provide and livelihoods of tens of millions of individuals.
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