For those who don't know -
Locust is an insect that belongs to the family of grasshoppers. When these locusts meet suitable environmental conditions, they become gregarious and start breeding abundantly. 1/n https://twitter.com/art_lover_09/status/1264802499782991873

With their population becoming denser, they form swarms and keep moving across areas damaging the crops. These swarms attacking crops and thereby devastating the entire agricultural economy is what is commonly referred to as locust plague. 2/n

These swarms then travel in search of new food. As crops are something which is present in abundance in open fields, the locust swarms settle on a field with the aim to consume the entire vegetation. 3/n

After Iran and Pakistan, the locust swarm has entered India and the forecasting officers have already warned the country against experiencing the worst locust situations in decades. This means that the country that is already dealing with a drastic economic and health crisis 4/n

due to COVID-19 is on the verge of facing the worst agricultural crisis as well.

Effect of locust plague on food
Desert locust are a direct threat to the food security of a country. 5/n

In favourable conditions, a locust swarm can cover an area from less than one square kilometre to several hundred square kilometres. As mentioned in a report published in The Hindu, a swarm of desert locust containing around 40 million locusts can consume 6/n

(or destroy) food that would suffice the hunger need of 35,000 people, assuming that one person consumes around 2.3 kg of food every day. 7/n

Source - An article on India dot com