21
Oct
Nigeria: Quarantine Service Confirms Infestation of Farms in Benue
NIGERIA: Makurdi — The Nigeria Agricultural Quarantine Service (NAQS) has confirmed 100 percent infestation of farms by army worms in the three senatorial districts of Benue State. Daily Trust earlier reported the lamentation of maize farmers in the state over this year’s harvest occasioned by leaves eating worms which ravaged their entire farms. Head of the NAQS delegation on investigation to the state, acting director John Ogbaje, while briefing the commissioner for Agriculture, James Anbua, on his team’s findings in Makurdi, said that maize farms visited were suspected to have been infested by pests known as army worms