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Lena, a mother, showing leaves eaten by locusts in her corn field.
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Ground team spraying pesticide with a vehicle-mounted sprayer.
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FAO agent using an anemometer to know the wind direction before ground spraying
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Some women from Antsokay village waiting seeds (Programme on agricultural recovery financed by FAO)
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With FAO’s support, the South-West Regional Office for Nutrition distributes seeds to families affected by the locust plague to contribute to their agricultural recovery.
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Ground control agent on his way to spray pesticides.
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Refueling and preparing the helicopter for a locust spraying.
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Refueling and preparing of the airplane for locust control operations.
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Airplane take-off before spraying.
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Thankfully to the control operations against the locust plague, this farmer could have good harvest, she is drying paddy on the ground.
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Thankfully to the control operations against locust plague, crop productivity has increased: a family threshing rice.
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Thankfully to the control operations against locust plague, crop productivity has increased: a boy after harvesting rice.
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Thankfully to the control operations against locust plague, crop productivity has increased: A woman takes a break before trampling on the harvest to obtain the paddy.
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National agents refuel and prepare the helicopter before spraying.
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Locust swarm flying over Amparihibe village.
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A farmer tries to protect her rice field from a locust swarm.
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Ranaivo and his wife harvesting vouandjou spared by the locusts swarm during its passage. Migratory locusts mainly eat variety of grass
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Bushfires are common in Madagascar: among other reasons, populations use them to chase locusts away.
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The responsible of the agricultural service center and some members of the ‘Miara-Mandroso’ (moving forward together) during the FAO crop assessment mission.
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Rasolonomenjanahary, member of Miara-Mandroso association, practices market gardening when the rainy season is over.
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Zafy in her three-month old cassava field during the FAO crop assessment mission.
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Crop productivity has increased in the Melaky region : many farmers go to the rice-hulling machine before selling their product at the market.
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A swarm of the Malagasy Migratory Locust seen from the helicopter.
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A swarm of the Malagasy Migratory Locust seen from the ground in the Beravina forest.
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A swarm of the Malagasy Migratory Locust seen from the helicopter.
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Locust adults in the Beravina savannah.