Swarms of locust have moved from Sri Ganganagar, Nagaur, Jaipur, Dausa, Karauli and Swai Madhopur towards other areas in Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh after the authorities conducted operations to tackle them.
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Crop over 4,000 hectares in Sri Ganganagar and 100 hectares in Nagaur have been destroyed.
Around 90,000 hectares in 20 districts have been affected in the state due to the locust attack, said Om Prakash, Commissioner of the Agriculture Department.
He said the department carried out locust control operations on 67,000 hectares.
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He said the non-availability of standing crops is the reason behind their movement from Pakistan to India.
Talking about the locust control operations, he said 800 tractors with mounted sprayers are being used to neutralise locusts.
About 200 teams are involved in daily survey and farmers are being given free pesticides, he said.
Swarms of locust had recently entered some residential areas of Jaipur and settled on trees and walls. After a few hours, the insects moved towards Dausa.