Locust infestation threatens 21 regions of Russia

Due to the abnormally warm winter, locusts will become one of the main threats to the new harvest in Russia. Special units will be created to fight it. This year, locusts will have to be fought in 21 regions, they will be in the zone of maximum risk.

Such a forecast is contained in the report of the federal Rosselkhozcenter under the Ministry of Agriculture, which was presented at one of the last meetings in the Ministry.

We are talking about Astrakhan, Volgograd, Orenburg, Samara, Saratov, Ulyanovsk, Chelyabinsk, Irkutsk and Novosibirsk regions, the document says. In addition, the republics of Kalmykia, Dagestan, Ingushetia, Chechnya, Bashkiria, Tatarstan, Chuvashia, Khakassia and Yakutia, as well as the Krasnodar, Stavropol and Altai Territories may suffer from locust infestation. In 2024, there were 14 such regions.

Agrarians this year will need to treat 100 thousand hectares more from pests than last year. According to the document, it will be especially relevant for regions that border Kazakhstan.

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Unfit conditions: 21 regions of the Russian Federation may face the threat of locust infestation