Sat, 07 Jan 2017 11:40:52 +0000 By ANDREA MUKOMA KAZUNGULA district in Southern Province has recorded some pockets of African maize stalk borer in Sekute Chiefdom and not army worms as claimed by farmers in the area. District Commissioner Pascalina Musokotwane has confirmed the development to the Daily Nation in Livingstone. Ms. Musokotwane said that the African maize stalk borer has been reported in Mandia and Sekute wards respectively and that officers from the Ministry of Agriculture were doing everything possible to address the situation. “As of yesterday (Thursday) we had not yet received any reports of army worms but we have only stalk borers that have been reported in Mandia and Sekute wards. “And the team from the Ministry of Agriculture is on the ground to address the situation,” she said. She, however, said that the district would not relent but would instead continue doing assessments in all parts of the district for any […]
