Desert locusts damaged about 200,000 hectares of cropland in Ethiopia

Desert locusts damaged about 200,000 hectares of cropland in Ethiopia, causing a cereal loss of over 356,000 tonnes, according to the impacted assessment report of the Food and Agricultural Organization published yesterday. Sorghum was the most affected cereal with 114,000 hectares damaged, followed by maize at 41,000 hectares and wheat at 36,000 hectares.