Fall armyworm
Agric Minister Spends $20m On Wrong Chemicals
The Minister of Agriculture, Dr. Owusu Afriyie Akoto has been accused of spending 20 million dollars on wrong...
Deputy Agric Minister Visita NSS Farm
The Deputy Minister of Food and Agriculture, Dr. Sagre Bambangi, on Thursday paid a visit to the National Service...
Deputy Agric Minister Visits NSS Farm
The Deputy Minister of Food and Agriculture, Dr. Sagre Bambangi, on Thursday, paid a visit to the National Service...
FAO Warns Against Over Reliance On Pesticides To Fight Fall Armyworms
The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) in Accra has warned against the over reliance on pesticides in the...
Agric Ministry Dispatches Chemicals To Combat Army Worm In U/W
Government, through the Ministry of Food and Agriculture(MOFA) has released over one thousand litres of chemicals to...
’83 Famine Likely To Occur Again – Maize Farmers Assoc.
General Secretary of the Concern Maize Farmers Association Hassan Suleman has predicted that Ghana may experience...
Savannah Agric Research Inst Engage Farmers On Fall Armyworm
The Savannah Agricultural Research Institute (SARI) in the Northern Region has engaged some farmers in the Tolon...
Mass Infestation of Maize Farms By Armyworms; Farmers Abandon Farms In Despair
The infestation of fall armyworms on maize farms in the Ashanti Region continues to worsen despite efforts by the...
1,083 Hectares of Farmlands Attacked By Armyworm In Northern Region
About 1,083 hectares of farmlands in the Northern Region alone have been affected by the fall armyworm that was...
Farmers Tasked To Monitor, Detect and Control Pests
Farmers in the Upper East Region have been charged to regularly monitor fields for early detection and effective...
18,200 Hectares of Maize Farm Destroyed
The devastation caused by fall armyworms has affected 18,219.07 hectares of maize farms as at Friday May 26, 2017. So...
Ghana To Import Maize If Army Worm Is Not Controlled
The Regent of Dagbon Kampakuya Na Yakubu Abdulai Andani says Ghana may be forced to buy maize from Burkina Faso if the...
All Ten Regions Affected By Fall Armyworms – Deputy Minister of Agric Discloses
The Deputy Minister of Food and Agriculture has revealed that the fall armyworms have now affected all the ten regions...
Farmers Express Optimism As Agric Minister Tours Armyworm Infested Areas
Farmers in parts of the country have expressed optimism over Ghana winning the fight against the invasion of fall...
Government To Spend GHS16m To Fight Armyworm Invasion
Government is set to spend GHS16m to fight the infestation of Fall Army Worm (FAW) in the country to curtail the...
Government Forms Task Force To Fight Army Worms
Government has set up a task force for the control and management of army worm infestation of farms in the country....
War On Armyworms As Ministry Declares ‘agric State of Emergency’
Parliament has been asked to declare an 'agricultural state of emergency' as an armyworm invasion puts a GHC560m...
Crop-Killing Armyworm Caterpillar Reaches Rwanda, Kenya
Rwanda's government announced on Wednesday it had discovered fall armyworm on its crops, making it the third east...
Crop-Destroying Armyworm Caterpillars Spread To Uganda
A plague of crop-destroying fall armyworm caterpillars has spread to East Africa where officials confirmed their...