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Putting the locust invasion to an end would amount to no less than fourty million US dollars. According to the FAO’s reports, could the invasion fail from being stopped now, the whole of Madagascar will fall to the locusts in this year’s September. The scourge proved to be worse than usual this year, for the locusts monitoring and surveillance system has been neglected in the South of Madagascar. So has it been once in the latest year of the former millenium’s last decade. Back in 1999, locusts massively reached the capital city Antananarivo. Now, fourteen years later, the outskirts of the capital city already have to deal with the new invasion’s first advance guards.
The city named Fianarantsoa, located in the southern part of Madagascar's central regions, has been invaded by legions of migrating locusts. The occurence happens to be seldom enough to deserve a say. The invader massively assaulted green spaces. According to eye witnesses, swarms of locusts hovering above the city plunged it into the dark for a while. The FAO reports that nearly half of the national territory has now been conquered by some 500 billions of locusts.