Analysis: Cocoa and cashew nuts - Lebanon s long subsidy list is costing it dear
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Cocoa and cashew nuts: Lebanon s long subsidy list is costing it dear
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BEIRUT Army helicopters are spraying agricultural land in northeast Lebanon to help farmers battle swarms of locusts that flew to the country in what a U.N. agency said was a “very rare” event caused by a change in the wind direction.
The agriculture ministry, which is on full alert, said on Monday large numbers of the locusts had been destroyed.
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There have been no big farming losses so far but there are concerns that more swarms could be blown to the south of Lebanon, caretaker agriculture minister Abbas Mortada told Reuters.