The Ejisu - Juaben district chief cocoa farmer, Nana Kofi Mpiani, feared Ghana may not be able to achieve its target of producing 1 million tonnes of cocoa if the invasion
of the armyworms on cocoa farms is not controlled.
The Deputy Minister has come under intense criticisms for days after passing uncomplimentary comment about people from the Northern region in the wake
of the armyworms invasion.
Not exact matches
Mr. Quaitoo reacting to complaints from farmers in the area on how their farms have been destroyed by the fall
armyworm and subsequent appeal for some form
of compensation said, the complaints are «just a way
of taking money from the government; that's what they do all the time...».
William Quaitoo reacting to complaints from farmers in the area on how their farms have been destroyed by the fall
armyworm said, the complaints are «just a way
of taking money from the government; that's what they do all the time because they're difficult people.
Dr. Afriyie Akoto said the fund could be used to mitigate the plight
of farmers in distressed times, like recently where some farmers have been calling for the government's financial support after their farms were ravaged by
armyworms.
«I've currently lost investment worth thousands
of Ghana cedis last year when the
armyworms infested my farm.
General News
of Tuesday, 15 May 2018 Source: www.ghanaweb.com play videoEmmanuel Asante Krobea, Director
of Crop Services, MoFA Contrary to claims made by the Agric Minister, Dr. Akoto Owusu Afriyie that government has eliminated fall
armyworms which have plagued farmers since 2017, the Director
of the Directorate
of Crop Services at the Ministry for Food and Agriculture, Emmanuel Asante Krobea has conceded that the pests can not be exterminated in the long haul.
He was
of the view that every Ghanaian must accept that
armyworms are always going to be with us therefore it's about time we accept that and work around it»
Contrary to claims made by the Agric Minister, Dr. Akoto Owusu Afriyie that government has eliminated fall
armyworms which have plagued farmers since 2017, the Director
of the Directorate
of Crop Services at the Ministry for Food and Agriculture, Emmanuel Asante Krobea has conceded that the pests can not be exterminated in the long haul.
Mr. Quaitoo, who is also the Member
of Parliament for Akim Oda, had come under fire for saying, in an interview on Accra - based Star FM, that northern farmers could not be trusted in their assessment
of damage from
armyworms.
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The former deputy minister was heavily criticised for making what many considered ethnocentric comments with regards to people from the north in the heat
of the destructive fall
armyworms invasion.
It was supported by Asunafo South MP Eric Opoku, who urged the new deputy minister to do his best to support the sector minister in not only fighting the fall
armyworms but also settling protesting college
of agriculture students.
For its latest work, Tumlinson's team knew that corn plants release a potent wasp attractant — a blend
of terpenoids and indole — when under attack from the beet
armyworm caterpillar.
For years, chemical ecologist Dawn Luthe and her students wondered why fall
armyworm caterpillars (Spodoptera frugiperda) let piles
of feces, known as frass, accumulate on corn, trapped in the plant's cuplike whorls where the leaves join the stalk.
Then there are the delicate interactions between warblers and
armyworm caterpillars, including what happens when the system breaks down through habitat destruction from logging and the overuse
of insecticides.
Inferring origins
of migrating insects using isoscapes: a case study using the true
armyworm, Mythimna unipuncta, in North America.
A 1995 outbreak
of two migratory moth species — beet
armyworm (Spodoptera exigua) and cabbage looper (Trichoplusia ni)-- devastated cotton crops in Texas» Lower Rio Grande Valley.
Caterpillars
of the fall
armyworm and two other Spodoptera species deploy a gut enzyme that catalyzes the attachment
of a sugar to the toxic free DIMBOA.
Like his colleague Daniel Giddings Vassão, Felipe Wouters is from Brazil, where fall
armyworm caused major losses
of the maize yield before Bt maize was introduced.
Bracovirus genes can be detected in the genomes
of several species
of butterfly and moth, including the famous Monarch (Danaus plexippus), the silkworm (Bombyx mori) and insect pests such as the Fall
Armyworm (Spodoptera frugiperda) and the Beet
Armyworm (Spodoptera exigua).
To study Egypt, the IPM Innovation Lab developed a comprehensive risk analysis
of that country's vulnerability to fall
armyworm.
Learn what he and his students think
of BTI's
armyworm kit, one
of the Institute's many educational resources.