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Jun
In Pics: Fall armyworm reported in Egypt’s Qena (Egypt Today)
The destructive Fall Armyworm (FAW) has infected a corn field in the village of Marashda in Upper Egypt’s Qena, looming an agricultural catastrophe, said Egyptian head of the Syndicate of the Farmers Hussein Abdel-Rahman in a statement.
“The fall armyworms are no less dangerous than the [novel] coronavirus pandemic, as it destroys more than 80 types of agricultural crops in Egypt, and its spread now amid the high temperature increases this risk and threatens food security for all Egyptians,” he added in a statement on Saturday.
