Russia has faced a new challenge in the last few months of preparation for the World Cup. One of the country's agricultural officials said the World Cup grounds are in danger of locust attack.
Pure Chakmacherov, chief of Crop Farming Department of the Ministry of Agriculture, said in an agricultural program on Moscow that if the locals attack during the World Cup, it will be a big scandal.
"People around the world will come here. Football fields are green The locust likes the grace of the green. How can they come to the place where football is going? "
The World Cup will be played in 12 stadiums in 11 cities across Russia in June-July. In this, the alarm is more about the southern part of Volgograd. In the area thousands of hectares of land were found to be traumatic.
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The World Cup begins on June 14 with the Russia-Saudi Arabia match in Moscow.