Agriculture Development Officer for Balaka Denis Zingeni said the district is still carrying out an assessment of the fall armyworm outbreak in the district.
Dr Albert Changaya

Kenyan researchers on Friday formed a networking team to fight fall armyworm, an insect that destroys crops, which has caused devastating effects on farmers across the country.

Malawi continues to be affected by armyworms as the pest has destroyed half of Malawi’s planted irrigation maize this year.

Half of Malawi's maize has been infected by crop-munching armyworms, a senior government official said on Thursday.

NAIROBI (Xinhua) -- Scientists at the Nairobi-based International Insect Physiology and Ecology (ICIPE) announced Thursday they have discovered a technology that will manage ravaging pest that has

One thousand hectares of 6,000 hectares maize farm in the Central Region have been completely destroyed by fall armyworm.

Crops that feed 200 million people at risk from destructive march of fall armyworm, as agriculture experts call for urgent action

The Ministry of Agriculture, Water and Forestry has warned of a possible outbreak of fall army worm in southern Africa during the 2017/18 crop season.

LUSAKA (Reuters) - Zambia said it expects a new outbreak of armyworms in the 2017/18 crop season, after the maize-munching pests ravaged southern Africa earlier this year.

Desert locusts are a major pest on numerous crops and pastures throughout a vast area of almost 30 million km2 covering Africa north of the equator, the Near East, the Arabian Peninsula and the Ind

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