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Locust Plague in Sumba

Monday, May 30, 2022

The voracious migratory locust is raging through the whole regency of Sumba Island. A balanced ecosystem is key to controlling and preventing this plague.

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A locust attack at a field in South Umbu Pabal village, Central Sumba, East Nusa Tenggara, May 2. Umbu Sunga Padjukang . tempo : 173055810375.

YONATAN Umbu Radda’s one-hectare rice field was decimated by migratory locusts on Friday, May 20. He could only save two sacks of rice, or about 30 kilograms, from his field in the Umbu Pabal Selatan village, Central Sumba, East Nusa Tenggara. With no locusts, this harvest would have produced at least some two tons of rice.

For almost three days, Yonatan tried everything to chase away the swarms of grasshoppers. He tried to repel them with

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