Locusts swarm in Hyderabad

The swarms of locusts have landed on agricultural fields as well as the residential localities of Hyderabad on Friday.

The residents of all the four talukas including City, Latifabad, Qasimabad and Hyderabad Rural have reported presence of locusts in hundreds of thousands of numbers.

The Hyderabad rural taluka and parts of Qasimabad and Latifabad talukas have rich agricultural land and the farmers expressed fear of suffering losses if the government did not take immediate action to ward off the threat.

An official of Sindh Agriculture Department said the locusts would likely to pass through the city in around a day. However, he said the insects were likely to devour the plantations in the areas of their presence.