Uttar Pradesh Cane Development department is using drone to chase away and kill the deadly locusts which had attacked the agricultural fields in Pilibhit district.
Additional Chief Secretary (Sugarcane Development) Sanjay R Bhoosreddy said here on Saturday that the Pooranpur Ganna Samiti had done a good work by using drone for the first time in the state to check locust attack .
“Drone was used in Jatpura village where it was equipped with a 10-litre container to spray insecticides on the locusts on Friday. The noise of the drone chased away the locust in large numbers and rest were killed by the spray,” Bhoosreddy claimed.
He said already big tankers of 1,000 litres of insecticides were being used in the agricultural fields to kill the locusts in Pilibhit and other districts.
The additional chief secretary said that all the departments were coordinating to counter the locust attack in different parts of the state.