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But the situation worsened this week and authorities began dispatching aircraft and spraying machines filled with pesticides mounted on vehicles to eliminate the insects, which are roughly the length of a finger and fly together by the millions.Farmers could be seen wading through clouds of the insects as some tried to kill them with sticks.
The insects have wreaked havoc on swathes of farmland in eastern Punjab, southern Sindh and southwestern Baluchistan province. They also attacked crops in the northwest bordering Afghanistan. “I have already lost my cotton crop and vegetables because of these locusts,” said Abdul Rehman, a farmer in Baluchistan province. He wondered what they would eat if the locusts continued unchecked.The National Disaster Management Authority said resources were being mobilized and operations were underway to curb the locust invasion.
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