"The locusts arrived in Dubai, and the entire desert peninsula was besieged by locusts, with a population of up to 400 billion."
"Across the eastern and northern Philippines, food has been eaten away by locusts, and there is no harvest. The Philippine mainland may usher in a terrible famine."
"The League of Nations urgently convened its permanent council to discuss joint efforts to eradicate locusts and seek solutions to the global food crisis."
"The Ethiopian government uses drones to spray pesticides on locust swarms and even deploys troops to eliminate locusts. However, the effect is minimal and locusts are still raging everywhere."
"Experts suggested using the latest powerful pesticides, which may quickly reduce the number of locusts and gradually kill them. However, they were fiercely opposed by the world's environmental protection organizations. The two sides argued with each other and there is no final conclusion yet."
"Bayer Group announced that its pesticide company has launched research on special pesticides to kill locusts, and will strive to reduce pollution and damage to the environment to protect the future."
"Roche Group and DuPont announced that they will develop a new bioinsecticide for locusts. They have now discovered a fungus that only targets locusts. It can poison locusts without harming the environment and other insects."
News items scrolled rapidly, constantly refreshing netizens’ knowledge.
No one expected that a small locust plague in the Philippines could have such a big impact.
Not only are the governments of various countries helpless, they are unable to control the locust plague even by dispatching aircraft and troops to spray pesticides in the air.
Fortunately, global pharmaceutical giants have begun to make efforts to enter the field of pesticides and develop new locust-killing drugs.
This finally brings a glimmer of hope to people all over the world.
Everyone is eagerly looking forward to the fact that these high-tech companies can immediately develop new pesticides to completely eliminate the locust plague.
The pharmaceutical field is mainly divided into three categories: human drugs, pesticides and veterinary drugs. Human drugs have the largest market and the greatest competition.
But the other two fields also have large market sizes, with tens of billions of dollars each. If we can become a leading enterprise, we can guarantee sales of several billion dollars a year.
Some large pharmaceutical companies have suffered frequent blows in the past two years in terms of human medicines and need to develop new fields. Now they are turning their attention to the new direction of pesticides.
The global pesticide market is also worth US$70 billion, which is still quite large.
If they can expand in this field, it might become a new profit growth point for the company.
In particular, the global locust plague not only triggered a surge in pesticide sales, but also attracted the attention of governments around the world. It is a good opportunity for companies to build their reputation.
Even some veterinary drug companies feel that they are more professional in insecticide and want to seize this opportunity, and have announced the development of new locust-killing pesticides.
In the past, they did not pay much attention to pesticides. They felt that the technical content was not high, and due to environmental protection requirements, the use of pesticides was becoming less and less.
In pest control in most countries, there is an increasing trend towards ecological cultivation and the use of natural enemies of pests.
In the past, European countries used natural enemies such as spiders to deal with locusts, while China used chickens and ducks to control locusts.
However, these measures are not needed now because there are too many locusts. If we want to kill 400 billion locusts, there will not be enough spiders, chickens and ducks.
Soon, the Roche Group announced that they had successfully developed a new locust-killing fungus, a genetically modified entomophilous fungus that can effectively kill locusts and achieve a mortality rate of more than 90% in the laboratory.
This fungus only targets locusts and can be widely transmitted among locust swarms, thereby inhibiting the reproduction rate of locusts, but will not cause harm to other insects. Even if birds eat poisoned locusts, they will not get sick.
It sounds wonderful, but the large-scale cultivation of this kind of biopesticide takes time and is limited by factors such as temperature, humidity, air circulation, etc. It takes a week after dispersion to take effect, making it more suitable for small batches of locust extermination.
At this time, the locusts have already eaten up all the crops in one country and moved to the next place.
Roche's biological insecticides were too slow to take effect. People only had time to be happy for a while and then began to be disappointed.
Bayer also announced at this time that they had successfully improved on existing pesticides and developed a new chemical pesticide that can kill hundreds of billions of locusts at a very low cost. It is efficient, fast, high-quality and low-priced. , can be said to be the best choice to eliminate locusts at the moment.
However, Bayer did not provide sufficient data to explain the pesticide's toxicity and environmental harm. It only said that it was still conducting follow-up research and hoped that it could be adopted by the affected countries as soon as possible.
The International Cotton Growers Organization was also very interested in this pesticide at first, but after further research, it quickly stopped.
Over time, agriculture in various countries has suffered a major blow.
Crops such as barley, wheat, and rice are the favorites of locusts, and they are quickly devoured.
The Dubai government has completely given up, their extermination methods have completely failed, and the tourism industry has also suffered a major blow due to the locusts that are everywhere.
After all, no tourist would go to a disaster-stricken area at this time and enjoy the pleasure of having locusts flying into their mouths as soon as they open their mouths.
Dubai was originally an important hub on the desert peninsula. However, the number of tourists dropped sharply, and the local government couldn't even cry.
The country of Tianzhu is also waiting at the border. The locusts have arrived in Bucky, and the next target is Tianzhu.
Tianzhu has always been a major exporter of grain. If Tianzhu's grain falls, it will not only affect Asia, but also the whole world will fall into a food crisis.
Therefore, Tianzhu has received a lot of international help, and many countries have come to help. Even the Eagle Kingdom has declared that it will fully support Tianzhu in fighting the locust plague. Such strong support will envy many small countries in the Philippines.
400 billion locusts fluttered their wings and headed straight for Tianzhu.
The whole world was sweating for Tianzhu.
However, just one day later, Tianzhu announced that the locusts had been basically eliminated and the locust plague had been effectively controlled.
The eyes of governments from all over the world fell out instantly. They were all shocked and thought this was simply a fantasy.
Tianzhu is probably not making a national joke with the whole world, right?
The day before, I was asking for help everywhere, begging grandpa to sue grandma, but then I turned around and said that the locust plague had been controlled. The speed of extermination was too fast.
Tianzhu soon announced its own measures to eradicate locusts, which was even more surprising.
President Tianzhu spoke cheerfully on TV.
"Our country dispatched a large number of drones to spray pesticides and deployed troops to participate in the war against pests. Therefore, the locusts were basically eliminated in just one day."
"Thanks to the brave warriors, the locust plague was eliminated so quickly. It can be seen that man can conquer nature. As long as you work hard, the locust plague is nothing."
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