South Africans have taken to Social Media to share videos of ‘millions’ of brown locusts that were swarming parts of the Northern Cape, Eastern Cape, and the Western Cape on Wednesday.
These sightings have sparked new fears over the impact the insects might have on the country’s agriculture and economy, along with potentially threatening food supply.“Locusts only come out after heavy rains,” he said. “South Africa experiences such an outbreak every ten years, so the last one was in 2010, so, if you look at the two previous years, that’s when we started experiencing this again.”
He said farmers must remain vigilant in identifying and reporting them as soon as possible. “We urge members of the public as well to report them to their local offices or organisations because we work closely with them in this fight in all the provinces to make sure that we have this thing under control.”
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