Farmers in the Tamale North constituency in the Northern Region have been provided with knapsack sprayers and other farm inputs by their Member of Parliament, Alhaji Alahassan Suhuyini, to deal with...
The Minister of Agriculture, Dr. Owusu Afriyie Akoto has been accused of spending 20 million dollars on wrong pesticides that lacked the efficacy to deal with the troubling fall armyworms. The Member...
The Deputy Minister of Food and Agriculture, Dr. Sagre Bambangi, on Thursday paid a visit to the National Service Scheme’s Dahwenya Farm in the Greater Accra Region. The visit was to afford the...
The Deputy Minister of Food and Agriculture, Dr. Sagre Bambangi, on Thursday, paid a visit to the National Service Scheme’s Dahwenya Farm in the Greater Accra Region. The visit was to afford the...
The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) in Accra has warned against the over reliance on pesticides in the treatment of the fall armyworm infestation currently devastating large portions of...
Government, through the Ministry of Food and Agriculture(MOFA) has released over one thousand litres of chemicals to help fight fall armyworms in the Upper West region. The Upper West regional crop...
General Secretary of the Concern Maize Farmers Association Hassan Suleman has predicted that Ghana may experience serious famine akin to what hit the country in 1983 if measures are not put in place...
The Savannah Agricultural Research Institute (SARI) in the Northern Region has engaged some farmers in the Tolon District on impending dangers with regard to the fall armyworm infestation in...
The infestation of fall armyworms on maize farms in the Ashanti Region continues to worsen despite efforts by the government to manage the spread of the pests. About 62,627 hectares of maize farms...
About 1,083 hectares of farmlands in the Northern Region alone have been affected by the fall armyworm that was detected in the country late last year. The region currently trails beind the Brong...
Farmers in the Upper East Region have been charged to regularly monitor fields for early detection and effective control of pests on crops. The farmers were further charged to start planting early...
The devastation caused by fall armyworms has affected 18,219.07 hectares of maize farms as at Friday May 26, 2017. So far, nine regions have been affected with farmers losing hundreds of thousands of...
The Regent of Dagbon Kampakuya Na Yakubu Abdulai Andani says Ghana may be forced to buy maize from Burkina Faso if the fall army worm infestation is not addressed. He said the rate at which the pest...
The Deputy Minister of Food and Agriculture has revealed that the fall armyworms have now affected all the ten regions of Ghana. The last region, which is the Volta was affected on Thursday, William...
Farmers in parts of the country have expressed optimism over Ghana winning the fight against the invasion of fall armyworms which have started destroying vast tracks of farmlands. This optimism...
Government is set to spend GHS16m to fight the infestation of Fall Army Worm (FAW) in the country to curtail the destruction of more hectares of maize and cowpea. According to the Agric Minister, Dr....
Government has set up a task force for the control and management of army worm infestation of farms in the country. Ghana experienced the infestation of the Fall Army Worm (FAW) in all parts of the...
Parliament has been asked to declare an 'agricultural state of emergency' as an armyworm invasion puts a GHC560m agricultural project at 'serious' risk. Describing the invasion as requiring urgent...
Rwanda's government announced on Wednesday it had discovered fall armyworm on its crops, making it the third east African country afflicted by the plant-eating pest also recently spotted in Kenya....
A plague of crop-destroying fall armyworm caterpillars has spread to East Africa where officials confirmed their presence for the first time in Uganda on Friday. An outbreak of the caterpillars in...
