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NEPAL OFFERS FARMERS CASH REWARD FOR CATCHING LOCUSTS

Nepal is offering FARMERSĀ  money prizes for getting desert grasshoppers to constrain the harm brought about by the damaging multitudes that have desolated harvests in India and Pakistan.

South Asia is encountering its most exceedingly awful invasion in decades, with the plague of beetles obliterating horticultural heartlands and are currently entering Nepal.

“Our choice is planned for urging individuals to get the bugs as opposed to utilizing pesticides which may be hurtful to nature,” farming service representative Khagendra Prasad Sharma, who handles the Far West Province, told AFP.

Ranchers and different local people in two areas that have just been attacked for this present week will be presented to 25 rupees (21 US pennies) for each kilogram (2.2 pounds) of the bugs.

The beetles are found utilizing gigantic mosquito nets that obstruct their flight. They are likewise more effectively got around evening time when they are resting

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