KATHMANDU: Locust swarms that entered Nepal from India last week have damaged over 1,100 hectares of crops in the Himalayan country. According to the Plant Quarantine and Pesticide Management Centre (PQPMC) under the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Development, the attack by swarms of locusts has resulted in crop damage of 1,118 hectares of land, reports Xinhua news agency. "Though the damage is considerably low, the locusts have dominantly damaged crops of five districts in Nepal," Ram Krishna Subedi, coordinator at the Locust Information Center at PQPMC, said on Saturday. "They have not been causing additional damage to the crops in other places of the country because most of them have scattered from their original swarms." (IANS)
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