Global Locust Apocalypse - Plagues Being Visited On All Mankind - Agricultural Armageddon

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Locust threat in Latin America
The FAO has drawn attention to locusts posing a threat to agriculture in parts of Latin America. Efforts are being made at the regional level to cope with locust swarms disaster.
The 2019-2020 desert locust plague has caused immense damage in Africa, the Arabian Peninsula and South Asia. And in mid-May, swarms of the South American locust were reported in south-western parts of Paraguay. By the end of the month, they had entered Argentina’s northern province of Formosa, moving on later to Corrientes Province, which borders on Brazil and Paraguay. The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) fears that above-average winter temperatures in the region, together with below-average rainfall in southern Brazil, could facilitate the spread of swarms, threatening key winter wheat and barley areas in Argentina, southern Brazil and western Uruguay.
Locusts are grasshoppers that normally live in small numbers and do not pose a threat to agriculture. Drought conditions followed by rapid vegetation growth cause these animals to breed more abundantly and become gregarious and migratory. Adults are equipped with much longer wings, enabling them to fly distances of around 150 km a day in huge swarms typically consisting of around 150 million locusts per square km. In a single day, such a swarm can devour the same amount of food that around 35,000 people would require.

The present desert locust crisis in Africa and Asia is believed to have been triggered by heavy rains in the South Arabian peninsula, ultimately resulting from climate change impacts in the Indian Ocean region. Plagues of the South American locust can develop following substantial rainfall in a desert and semi-desert area covering parts of Argentina, Paraguay and Bolivia. One such plague, occurring in 1933, caused the destruction of two million tons of crops. The South American locust is believed to be the most harmful of all locusts.

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