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        "id": 1430859,
        "msgid": "pests-attack-sumba-crops-1447893297",
        "date": "1999-01-21 00:00:00",
        "title": "Pests attack Sumba crops",
        "author": null,
        "source": "JP",
        "tags": null,
        "topic": null,
        "summary": "Pests attack Sumba crops MAUMERE, East Nusa Tenggara (JP): Around 750 hectares of crops have been destroyed by locusts in the past few weeks, according to the head of food crops of East Sumba. The official, Umbu Kaludang, was quoted as saying over the weekend that the pests had attacked crops in 26 villages. He hoped the government could help wipe them out as the local agricultural agency had ran out of pesticides. Residents were now trying traditional methods such as burning them.",
        "content": "<p>Pests attack Sumba crops<\/p>\n<p>MAUMERE, East Nusa Tenggara (JP): Around 750 hectares of crops<br>\nhave been destroyed by locusts in the past few weeks, according<br>\nto the head of food crops of East Sumba.<\/p>\n<p>The official, Umbu Kaludang, was quoted as saying over the<br>\nweekend that the pests had attacked crops in 26 villages. He<br>\nhoped the government could help wipe them out as the local<br>\nagricultural agency had ran out of pesticides. Residents were now<br>\ntrying traditional methods such as burning them.<\/p>\n<p>The locusts, locals said, were found in villages in the<br>\ndistricts of Panuga Londu, Rindumalulu, Tandung, Lewa, Paberiwai<br>\nand Waingapu town.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;They increase rapidly because one locust can lay eggs four<br>\ntimes at 400 eggs each time,&quot; Kalundang said as quoted by Pos<br>\nKupang daily.<\/p>\n<p>Separately Kawango village head Petrus Kondanglinmu said<br>\nfarmers there feared for their corn harvests. A failure would be<br>\nthe second since 1997. Another official said famine was feared if<br>\nharvests failed. (yac)<\/p>",
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