{"id":24247,"date":"2020-07-01T07:22:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-01T07:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=24247"},"modified":"2020-07-01T07:22:02","modified_gmt":"2020-07-01T07:22:02","slug":"indigenous-airborne-locust-control-system-on-mi-17-helicopter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/indigenous-airborne-locust-control-system-on-mi-17-helicopter\/","title":{"rendered":"Indigenous Airborne Locust Control System on Mi-17 Helicopter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Anticipating Locust attack, Ministry of Agriculture signed a contract with M\/s Micron, UK to modify two Mi-17 Helicopters for spraying atomized pesticide to arrest Locust breeding in May 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/current-affairs-quiz-2019-daily-gk\/\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"undefined (opens in a new tab)\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\"><strong>Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Key-Points<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Due to COVID-19 pandemic, the UK based firm would be able to manufacture and supply the modification kit to IAF only from Sep 2020 onward for system integration and testing.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the meanwhile, an unprecedented Locust attack started manifesting from last week of May and was fast spreading practically across many States.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A team of Test Pilots and Test Engineers of Aircraft and Systems Testing Establishment, Bangalore have successfully carried out ground and airborne trials of ALCS on a modified Mi-17 helicopter.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The system is being offered for use with Malathion for employment in the locust control operation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Being an indigenously developed system, the ALCS would offer inherent advantages of in-house maintenance, future upgradeability, saving of foreign exchange and help in making the country Self Reliant in aviation related technology.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Locust attack in India<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Swarms of locusts have invaded vast swathes of land in India since April 11th this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They entered several districts of Rajasthan via Pakistan\u2019s Sindh province.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Few days later, they entered the neighbouring State of Madhya Pradesh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Many districts in Uttar Pradesh have now been put on alert.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This locust attack has affected about 90,000 hectares across 20 districts in Rajasthan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Favourable rain-bearing winds aided their transport towards India.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This quickly growing swarm is now threatening to amplify into an agrarian disaster.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anticipating Locust attack, Ministry of Agriculture signed a contract with M\/s Micron, UK to modify two Mi-17 Helicopters for spraying atomized pesticide to arrest Locust breeding in May 2020. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points Due to COVID-19 pandemic, the UK based firm would be able to manufacture and supply the modification kit to IAF [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":404,"featured_media":24248,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[870],"tags":[],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-24247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-2020"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24247"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24249,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24247\/revisions\/24249"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24247"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/offerexpiration?post=24247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}