Madagascar: Scientists Say They Warned of Locust Swarms
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Antananarivo — The locust swarms that devastated crops in Madagascar last summer were predicted by the country's scientists several months in advance, but lack of government intervention meant control measures were not taken in time, they have said.
Rivonala Razafison
8 November 2010
Antananarivo — The locust swarms that devastated crops in Madagascar last summer were predicted by the country's scientists several months in advance, but lack of government intervention meant control measures were not taken in time, they have said.
"We warned the government [as early as February] the locust invasion would be out of control by August-September if there was no concrete intervention in the field," said Rado Solohery Ramboa, chief of the administration and finance department at the National Anti-Locust Center (CNA), which gathers data on factors that affect locust swarm formations.
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