How far are the 400 billion locusts that are ravaging India from China? Will they fly to China?

At the beginning of 2020, the world seems to be in a huge crisis. The fires in Australia that lasted from last year to this year have not been extinguished, the terrifying new coronavirus pneumonia in China, and southern Africa have been hit by hurricanes and floods. These dizzying and terrifying disasters have not yet passed, and they have spread to the Asian and African continents. locust plague. 2019 is called an El Ni?o year by experts and scholars. In this year, due to the massive evaporation of warm seawater, many areas in Africa suffered heavy rains and floods. It is precisely because of abundant rains and the strong reproductive capacity of locusts that the locusts in Africa have increased nearly 500 times.

The terrifying real scene of the locust plague

These locusts that cover the sky and the sun are not only eating crops in Kenya, Somalia and other East African countries, they also move 150 times in one day. At a speed of kilometers, it is rapidly approaching South Asian countries from East African countries. The locust disaster that broke out in 2019 was not only the most serious disaster in Kenya in the past 70 years, but also the most serious disaster in the entire East Africa region in the past 25 years. Due to the rapid reproduction rate, African countries cannot devote the human, material and financial resources to control the locust plague. The current locust plague has already spread to countries such as India and Pakistan at the beginning of this year. In recent days, countless people have been discussing and worrying: How far away is the locust disaster from China? Where exactly did it arrive, and what is the current locust disaster situation?

Locusts eating crops

According to official media reports in recent days, India, Pakistan, and Iran have suffered the largest locust plague in recent decades. Let’s talk about India first. According to India’s official Finance Minister, nearly 400 billion locusts have attacked the Indian state of Rajasthan. As a large amount of farmland has been destroyed by locusts, the locust plague is spreading again, with 700,000 locusts already present. The Indian army has no food to eat, so the Indian army stationed in Rajasthan can only temporarily withdraw its troops from the state.

Secondly, the situation of the locust plague that Pakistan has encountered is even less optimistic. This locust plague is the rarest disaster in Pakistan in 27 years. These locusts will destroy the food of Pakistan's 35,000 people every day. If the locust plague Without control, Pakistan, with a population of hundreds of millions, is likely to face a terrible situation of no food to harvest.

Countless locusts

However, there is also good news. At present, the locust plague spreading in Rajasthan has been effectively controlled by the Indian government. They only exist in a small area of ????the state, and the damage to Indian crops has been significantly reduced. Even so, the situation of the locust plague in India is still not optimistic. According to Indian experts' predictions, after India experiences a new round of rainfall in June 2020, it is very likely that India will be hit by a large-scale locust plague. If no preparations are made, , presumably when this disaster strikes, India will face another serious loss of food.

Locust invasion

Of course, although China and Pakistan and other locust-stricken countries have long borders, many people are worried that the locust plague will spread to China. However, it is not easy for the locust plague that broke out in Asia and Africa to spread to China. On the one hand, most of the borders between China and locust-affected countries such as India and Pakistan are in high-altitude plateau areas. These locusts do not have the ability to fly across the Himalayas to the Tibetan Plateau. On the other hand, even if locusts bypass the plateau, Entering from Yunnan or Xinjiang, with ample time to prepare, coupled with the extermination efforts of India and other countries, China, which has rich experience, must also have enough preparations and capabilities to nip the locusts spreading to China in the bud.