Armyworms Not Defeated Yet–Suhuyini
Farmers in the Tamale North constituency in the Northern Region have been provided with knapsack sprayers and other farm inputs ...
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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 pesticides that ...
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 Scheme’s Dahwenya Farm in the ...
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 Scheme’s ...
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 treatment of ...
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 help fight fall ...
’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 serious famine akin to ...
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 government ...
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 detected ...
We’ve To Start Right – Ayew
Deputy Captain of the Black Stars, Andre Dede Ayew, has cautioned his colleague to eschew complacency when they play their ...
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 control of ...
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 ...
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 armyworms ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 African country ...
Crop-Destroying Armyworm Caterpillars Spread To Uganda
A plague of crop-destroying fall armyworm caterpillars has spread to East Africa where officials confirmed their presence for the first ...
Do Ugandans Really Speak the Best English In Africa?
World Linguistic Society names Uganda as top, followed by Zambia, South Africa and Kenya Uganda's government-owned New Vision newspaper has ...