Giant hordes of locusts attacked the farmland of the Stavropol Territory. The pest has mastered about 200 thousand hectares. In the Argiz, Levokum and Neftekumsky districts, locusts have already destroyed winter wheat and fodder crops. In the regions the emergency mode is declared. The damage already exceeded 5 billion rubles. I got to Apanasenkovsky, Budennovsky, Ipatovsky and Turkmen districts.

In principle, locusts fly to the edge every year, but this year the migration occurred before. Locust not only able to gobble everything in its path, it can even provoke an accident. It multiplies rapidly, and if it is not stopped, the next in its path will be the central regions of Russia, Bashkiria, the Urals. Now every day more than 10 thousand hectares of fields are treated with insecticides, 26 units of agricultural insurance and more than 120 units of ground equipment. All necessary insecticides have been delivered to the North Caucasus and Stavropol Territory. This Moroccan locust. Monitoring of pest infected areas is conducted daily.

Measures to combat disaster are coordinated by the Krai Government. Out of 454.5 thousand hectares of surveyed fields are inhabited by locusts of about 300 thousand hectares. An additional 30 million rubles will be allocated for pest control.

Struggle with locusts is also conducted by the neighboring Dagestan. There pests have already seized 25 thousand hectares of land. In Dagestan, it is hoped that some decrease in air temperature will slow the progress of the locust.