If it is not one, it is another. Now a plague of desert locusts from Paraguay has arrived to settle in northeast Argentina and threatens to advance to Brazil.
As reported by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the plague entered Argentina in the province of Formosa and settled there permanently on May 28.
According to Infobae, crossed the Paraná river last Friday and reached Corrientes, where it is currently located, close to the province of Entre Ríos, where so far there has been no movement.
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Trans-Andean authorities reported lobster sightings in the desert in the Santa Fe region, located 250 kilometers from the border with Brazil.
He FAO expert Fernando Rati He stated that “the best way” to combat the plague is with aerial fumigation and to monitor it live.
“With regard to this wave of lobsters that may arrive in Brazil in the coming days and hours, the most important prevention method at the moment is a plan to monitor how lobsters move in real time together with the authorities of Argentina and Uruguay. Rati stated.
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