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This is dampening prospects of increased yields this year.
The positive weather, while conducive for crops , has created a favourable environment for insect breeding and multiplication.
This has fuelled infestations of the African Migratory Locust (AML), Red Locust and Brown Locust mainly in the southern parts of the country.
Outbreaks of the locusts were first detected in early 2020, remain a threat to crop and pasture production in 2021.
Reports from the Southern African country indicate that the number of AML swarms have increased between January and April 2021.
The government of President Hage Gengob is currently responding to the pestilence, with support from Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO).