Tue, 20 Dec 2016 13:14:51 +0000 By Wilson Pondamali AN unknown disease but suspected to be maize stem weevils has damaged close to 24 hectares of newly grown maize in Kapiri Mposhi district and Government has responded by undertaking scientific tests to establish the magnitude of the problem. The matter was discovered by some farmers in Waya and Lukanga farming blocs who reported the strange disease to the provincial agricultural office in Kabwe and the National Agriculture Information Service (NAIS). An entomologist based at the Agricultural Research Station, Codrine Malambo, confirmed the development to the Daily Nation in Kabwe but said that scientific tests were yet to be done to ascertain the real problem. “We went to some place near Lukanga swamps where a farmer who had cultivated 24 hectares of maize had almost 90 percent of his crop lost. We discovered some sort of maggots under the roots of the crops and we […]
