When farmer Rita Tolu saw 'a big black wave storming across the horizon and taking over the fields' in April, she knew that little of her dried fodder and alfalfa crops would be left in the following days.
A swarm of locusts are seen on a field on the island of Sardinia, in Noragugume, Italy, May 22, 2022. Picture taken May 22, 2022.
She and her family run a dairy farm of 200 hectares near the village of Noragugume, where crops and animal fodder such as ryegrass and clovers are also grown and around 1,000 sheep graze. Zaru said that anyone who had opted to farm grassland this year to boost milk production had lost the whole of their initial investment because of the locusts.In 1946, about 1.5 million hectares of land, accounting for two-thirds of the island's territory, were affected as locusts spread quickly across fields abandoned during World War Two.
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