{"id":18680,"date":"2020-05-25T13:00:41","date_gmt":"2020-05-25T04:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/25\/many-will-starve-locusts-devour-crops-and-livelihoods-in-pakistan"},"modified":"2020-05-25T13:00:41","modified_gmt":"2020-05-25T04:00:41","slug":"many-will-starve-locusts-devour-crops-and-livelihoods-in-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=18680","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Many will starve&#8217;: locusts devour crops and livelihoods in Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Farmers faced with worst plague in recent history say they have been left to fend for themselves<\/p>\n<p>Mir Gul Muhammad, a farmer in Balochistan province, was blunt. \u201cThe worst that we have ever seen, ever, in our whole life,\u201d he said of the swarms of locusts that descended on his village of Gharok.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI cultivated around 50 acres of cotton crops and all of them have been eaten and destroyed by locusts,\u201d he said. \u201cBesides cotton, my other crops \u2013 onion, chilli and tomato \u2013 have been affected badly too. It is a loss of around 10m rupees [\u00a351,000]. As a farmer, it will take years to recover from this loss.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/25\/many-will-starve-locusts-devour-crops-and-livelihoods-in-pakistan\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Farmers faced with worst plague in recent history say they have been left to fend for themselvesMir Gul Muhammad, a farmer in Balochistan province, was blunt. \u201cThe worst that we have ever seen, ever, in our whole life,\u201d he said of the swarms of locusts&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":654,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[737,65,777,60,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-agriculture","category-environment","category-insects","category-pakistan","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/654"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18680"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18681,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18680\/revisions\/18681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}