People fight locust attack with a brilliant innovation. Viral video amazes Twitter – Trending News News

Posted on June 4, 2020 by Design in Design Innovation | 0 Comments

Snip from video posted by IFS officer Parveen Kaswan; AP photo

In the wake of the attack by locust swarms in India, people are resorting to innovative techniques to fight back. Social media is filled with videos of peoplecoming up with ingenious ideas like banging plates and lighting fires.

Recently, a video of people installing a DJ setup in the middle of the farm and playing songs on loudspeakers went viral. And now another video of a similar idea has surfaced and it is brilliant.

Indian Forest Service (IFS) officer Parveen Kaswan shared the video of this innovation on Twitter. In the clip, one can see a fan attached to one side of a plastic bottle and a small kettledrum on the other end. The kettledrum also had a cardboard in the shape of a fin attached to it, to help in the movement of the device. So, when the wind blew, the fan started moving, making the drum beat faster and creating noise to scare the locusts.

Take a look:

Modern problem, requires modern solution. Local innovation at best for locusts. Brilliant idea. Via @upcoprahul pic.twitter.com/0q5G8hQrf8

— Parveen Kaswan, IFS (@ParveenKaswan)

Kaswan shared the clip with the caption, “Modern problem, requires a modern solution. Local innovation at best for locusts. Brilliant idea. (sic)” According to him, it was first shared by Uttar Pradesh police officer Rahul Srivastav.

After Kaswan shared the clip, it quickly went viral and managed to garner over 28k views. Netizens clearly loved the idea and took to the comments section to share their views.

See what Twitter users are saying:

This kind of eco-friendly technology needs to be scaled up. Amazing Idea .

— Sachin Survase (@sdsurvase)

Dugdugi bajaao, Tiddi bhagaao !

— Dev Ashish (@Capt_Devashish)

This One Really Beats Quite a Fewhttps://t.co/lYxLxMZNHV

— Pankaj Thapliyal (@PankajT04765688)

Really great solution.

— Rajdeep Poddar (@rajdeeppoddar01)

Great.

— Raghav Billore (@raghavbillore2)

— Shweta Raj (@ShwetaR33213911)

At the time of writing this article, the tweet already had over 3.2k likes and several retweets.

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