The Locust Problem in Cyprus

The 1959 report by LFH Merton from the Anti-Locust Research Centre in London
The 1959 report by LFH Merton from the Anti-Locust Research Centre in London (see http://ispi-lit.cirad.fr/text/ALB34a.htm)

Plagues of locusts periodically devastated Cypriot agriculture and food security from the fourteenth to the twentieth century. The battle against them and their eventual control is part of the fascinating history of the island and I have added a page that charts this struggle here.

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