Locusts attack afresh in Kot Addu.

MUZAFFARGARH -- In a fresh attack, swarm of locusts incurred irreparable loss to different crops at large areas of Kot Addu tehsil, said local farmers.

The locust damaged cotton, fodder, sesmi seed, durra and sunflower badly in different areas of Kot Addu including Chowk Sarwar Shaheed, Noor Shah Talai, Peer Jagi Mor, Adda Saeedi, Pathan Hotel, Chak No 519, 521, 583, 586, 673, the farmer said.

They said the district administration had started spraying the affected areas but could not eliminate the insects so far.

For the last five days, the locust were damaging the crops, they said and added that swarms of the insects were attacking the crops repeatedly.

They said that they...