For many farmers in Pipli Pahar, the extermination campaign has already come too late. Sitting in the corner of a wheat field with her cow, Rafiya Bibi watches the flurry of pesticide spraying around her. The locusts have already destroyed her crops of canola, sunflower, chili and tobacco, which she had bought after borrowing 45,000 rupees from the government.With no harvest, she has no way to repay the loan. "What can I do?" she said. "All I can do is cry, what else can I do?"
AFP