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 ...
Tag: Maize
Retired Deputy Director of CSIR Urged Farmers To Pray For Rainfall
Prayer has been identified as an integral part of most activities Ghanaians perform including farming as farmers were called to ...
Unemployed Graduates Engaged For ‘planting For Food and Jobs” In Volta
The Department of Agriculture in the Volta Region has engaged more than 100 unemployed graduates from agricultural institutions as Extension ...
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 ...
Mexico Threatens To Ditch US Corn Imports
Mexico has identified a potential weapon in its trade wrangle with US President Donald Trump: lucrative yellow cobs of American ...
‘Planting For Food and Jobs’ Campaign Gets To Volta Region’
The Volta regional technical committee for the implementation of the ‘Planting for Food and Jobs’ campaign has been inaugurated in ...
Poultry Farmers Upbeat 2017 Budget Will Revive the Industry
Poultry Farmers Association of Ghana has lauded government’s quest to address challenges faced by maize farmers in the country as ...
Drought-Resistant Maize Seeds Introduced In Northern Region
Four varieties of hybrid maize have been introduced to farmers in the Northern Region to boost maize production in the ...
‘Planting For Food and Jobs’ To Begin With GHC560m Cost
The New Patriotic Party (NPP) Government’s flagship agriculture policy, “Planting for Food and Jobs” will begin with a cost GHc ...
Government To Offload Shares In Aveyime Rice — Dr Owusu Afriyie Akoto
The government intends to offload its 60 percent shares in the struggling Aveyime rice project at Battor in the Volta ...
Armyworm Outbreak Could ‘spread’
The United Nation's Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) says it is concerned that the armyworm outbreak could spread to the ...
South Africa’s Battle With Armyworms
South African farmers are battling an alien armyworm invasion that has already caused devastation on their crops. The maize-destroying caterpillars ...
On A South African Farm, Despair Over Armyworm Attack
Peeling back the maize plant's leaves reveals a small brown caterpillar -- an armyworm that writhes as it burrows into ...
Food Prices Soar In Drought-Hit Countries
Drought in East Africa has led to a sharp increase in the price of staple foods, raising fears that hunger ...
Cocobod To Store Grains
Senior Minister Yaw Osafo Marfo has outlined government’s plans to solve post-harvest losses in the agricultural sector. “COCOBOD’s storage facilities ...
We’ll Replace Food Imports With ‘Planting For Food and Jobs’ Campaign — Afriyie Akoto
The government will, by April this year, launch an audacious campaign to turn farmlands and backyards into a huge food ...
Emergency UN Meeting In Harare Over Armyworm Outbreak
International experts will hold emergency talks in Harare on Tuesday to tackle an outbreak of crop-eating "armyworm" caterpillars advancing across ...
Fall Armyworms Invade Maize Farms At Afari and Obuasi
The plant protection and regulatory services directorate of the Food and Agriculture Ministry has confirmed the invasion of fall armyworms ...
Fall Armyworm ‘threatens African Farmers’ Livelihoods’
Scientists are calling for urgent action to halt the spread of a pest that is destroying maize crops and spreading ...
When You Sow, You Wait Before You Reap
Growing up, I spent time on the farm. I always enjoyed watching the maize seeds we sowed germinate, grow up ...