The recent locust attack in India has impacted our agricultural resources and destroyed our farmlands. Hence, to control the menace created by them, farmers have been coming up with innovative ideas to scare away these crop hungry insects.
Apparently, creating loud noises helps to scare away locust swarms. Hence, people started coming up with desi jugaad to ward-off these winged invaders. Earlier, we saw how farmers turned into DJs and blasted loud music. Soon after, people in Kanpur and Rajasthan banged utensils, drums to scare away locusts, reported Lokmat.
#WATCH Rajasthan: People bang utensils in order to scare away the swarm of desert locusts, a type of a species of short-horned grasshoppers, which flew across Dholpur district yesterday. pic.twitter.com/O8cFBfVdYk
— ANI (@ANI) May 28, 2020
Shape of utensils after 3 continuous days of beating them to avoid the locust attack.
Location – Ramasara Village, Napasar Tehsil, Bikaner, Rajasthan#LocustAttack #Tiddi #Rajasthan #bikaner pic.twitter.com/c9elHUvvvz— DEVENDRA INDERPURA (@joyinderpura) June 2, 2020
The district administration in Panna, MP, also came in support of the farmers and used blaring sirens to scare locusts away, reported India Today.
#WATCH Madhya Pradesh: Swarms of locusts being scared away by the district administration in Panna, using police sirens yesterday. pic.twitter.com/rEcXXsMXq1
— ANI (@ANI) May 28, 2020
“This saved loss of agricultural crops here. The way to prevent them from damaging crops is to create loud noises or to spray insecticides,” an Agriculture Officer said.
Recently, someone has come up with a desi aavishkaar to shoo away the ‘Tiddi Dal’. Rahul Srivastav, a superintendent of police in Uttar Pradesh’s Jhansi district, recently shared a video of the desi jugaad that’s been set up in a farm, reported NDTV. The instrument, that looks like an ‘aeroplane’, is intended to continuously make noise with the help of wind.
टिड्डी अविष्कार की जननी है !#Locust is the mother of inventions !#Jugad #Jugadrocks #TiddiAttack #Tiddi #LocustAttack #LocustSwarms #LocustInvasion #locustattacks #locusts pic.twitter.com/R3yuBEEUYm
— RAHUL SRIVASTAV (@upcoprahul) June 2, 2020
Here’s how people reacted to this novel idea:
Innovation at its best! Apparently the loud noise keeps the locust away https://t.co/cCzq4NiUli
— Swapna.G (@GovindSwapna) June 2, 2020
East or west #Jugaad is the best 😊
— saurabh srivastava (@saurabhsriLive) June 2, 2020
Superb 👌👌👌👌
— योगी गर्ग (@simplyrohit82) June 2, 2020
This is how you shoo away the Locusts 😀#Locust https://t.co/DuUQIslMPX
— Sudhir (@greener_sid) June 2, 2020
Simple and awesome invention.
— Arun Kumar (@labakdas) June 2, 2020
— Aprajita Mehra (@aprajita_mehra) June 2, 2020
King of the juggads!!! Never doubt a desi’s Power off innovation!!! Right opportunity and situation is enough for them to deliver brilliant solutions!!! @narendramodi @LostTemple7
— Bhrigu (भृगु) (@BhruGhu) June 2, 2020
Well, we Indians have expertise in coming up with such desi jugaad. What do you think of this one? Tell us.