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Locusts and farming
by Emily Murphy


 * Locust can eat its weight in food [[image:http://opencage.info/pics/files/800_12186.jpg width="412" height="360" caption="locusts look alike like grasshopers"]]
 * The locusts sworms atack crops
 * Locusts reproduce rapidly
 * A female locusts can produce 95 to 158 eggs
 * Locusts come in swarms of up to forty to eighty million.

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 * in some countrys it is not unusual to eat locusts
 * The Igbo tribe farms yams, cassava and taro[[image:http://farm1.static.flickr.com/115/317121304_d64ef83fca.jpg width="200" height="208" caption="this is a yam"]]
 * The igbo would pray to ani( mother nature) to pevent to much or too little rain fall
 * Too wet or to dry crops can be the cuase of not having enough crops
 * Rain can ruin any crop no matter how well prepared
 * Men were ussualy in charge of yam farming