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        "id": 1421738,
        "msgid": "grasshoppers-raid-rice-corn-fields-1447893297",
        "date": "1999-12-30 00:00:00",
        "title": "Grasshoppers raid rice, corn fields",
        "author": null,
        "source": "JP",
        "tags": null,
        "topic": null,
        "summary": "Grasshoppers raid rice, corn fields MAUMERE, East Nusa Tenggara: Over 2,800 hectares of rice and corn fields in three West Sumba districts have been declared destroyed following attacks by thousands of grasshoppers. A staff member at the local agriculture office, Ambrosius Leba, said on Wednesday residents of the districts had been ordered to exterminate the pests in order to prevent them from affecting other districts.",
        "content": "<p>Grasshoppers raid rice, corn fields<\/p>\n<p>MAUMERE, East Nusa Tenggara: Over 2,800 hectares of rice and<br>\ncorn fields in three West Sumba districts have been declared<br>\ndestroyed following attacks by thousands of grasshoppers.<\/p>\n<p>A staff member at the local agriculture office, Ambrosius<br>\nLeba, said on Wednesday residents of the districts had been<br>\nordered to exterminate the pests in order to prevent them from<br>\naffecting other districts.<\/p>\n<p>He said the farmers would be paid with rice in exchange for<br>\nthe grasshoppers they captured.<\/p>\n<p>\"A kilogram of grasshoppers is worth two kilograms of rice,\"<br>\nhe said.<\/p>\n<p>As of Monday the local administration had taken 53 tons of<br>\nrice out of storehouse for the farmers, according to Leba. (yac)<\/p>",
        "url": "https:\/\/jawawa.id\/newsitem\/grasshoppers-raid-rice-corn-fields-1447893297",
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