Somali has been ravaged by warms of locusts which were sighted in February flying over land used for grazing animals in remote parts of the country. While most farmers had harvested most of their crops by the time the first generation of locusts attacked, the latest swarms are coming at the start of the planting season, and are attacking as new seedlings (which locusts prefer over mature crops ) begin to sprout The government has began air-spraying bio-organic pesticides over the central Somali region of Galmudug, Puntland in the northeast and the self-declared republic of Somali land