After maize, castor crop affected by pest attack in Perambalur (The New Indian Express)
Farmers are worried over pest attacks on castor crop. They said that they were devastated because many shifted from maize to castor due... Read More
FAO helps Sri Lanka fight spread of Fall Armyworm (Colombo Gazette)
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) FAO is providing funding and technical assistance to the Department of Agriculture... Read More
Zimbabwe: African Armyworm Hits Mashonaland Provinces (All Africa)
Farmers in Mashonaland Central and Mashonaland West provinces have been urged to be on the lookout for an African Army-worm outbreak following... Read More
Study finds wasp can reduce fall armyworm leaf consumption rate by up to 89 percent (eagle online)
In a recently published study led by Centre for Agriculture and Bioscience International (CABI), researchers assessed, under lab conditions, the effect of... Read More
Ugandan developers create app to spot fall armyworm damage in maize (The Herald)
Ugandan developers have come up with an agriculture app that can easily help millions of smallholder farmers in Zimbabwe and across the... Read More
App developers in Uganda use TensorFlow to spot armyworm damage in maize (VB The Machine)
Fall armyworm, the larval life stage of a fall armyworm moth, impacts maize crops worldwide but particularly in countries like Uganda, where... Read More
Fall Armyworm controlled in Odisha (DownToEarth)
Proper precaution and timely management by the state agriculture department and awareness among farmers have succeeded in thwarting an attack by the... Read More
Fighting Africa’s fall armyworm invasion with radio shows and phone apps (Mongabay)
How does fish soup end up on a maize plant? Farmers in Malawi developed the idea to protect their plants from the... Read More
Can TELA maize solve the acute food shortages in sub-Saharan Africa? (Cornell Alliance for Science)
Sub-Saharan Africa remains the most food-insecure region in the world, with an estimated 237 million throughout the region suffering from chronic undernutrition. Frequent... Read More
Thailand’s swift response to the ‘fall armyworm’ pest (The Thaiger)
In Thailand, corn is an indispensable staple crop, used as an important source of feed for a thriving poultry and livestock industry.... Read More