WORMS INVASION SPREADS TO ALL 30 DISTRICTS IN ASHANTI

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Invasion of the fall armyworm on maize farms in the Ashanti region continues to spread as it has now been reported in all the 30 administrative districts compared with the 13 we reported early this week. 

The Ashanti Regional Director of Agric, Joseph Faalong, who made this known to Ashanti Today in Kumasi disclosed also, that the number of farms attacked has also shot up from 500 to almost one thousand hectares during the same period. 

He noted that some of the farms being cultivated under the government’s flagship agric programme “Planting for Food and Jobs” have also been attacked. 

According to him, the pests eat the plants in the early and late hours of the day thereby necessitating strategic methods in fighting them.

 Mr. Faalong noted that even though maize production in the region is under threat, all is not lost as corrective measures have been adopted for implementation by the Ministry of Food and Agriculture.

He said the Ministry has reached an agreement with agro chemical dealers to supply the affected farmers with the appropriate chemicals to spray their farms to bring the situation under control.

 The region is also to take a consignment of chemicals from the Ministry by the weekend for distribution among the affected farmers to spray their farms. 

 To this end, District Spraying Gangs have been formed in all the districts to carry out the exercise. 

Mr. Faalong said the agro chemicals are being sold to the farmers at a highly subsidized rate. 

Meanwhile, the pests are reported to have attacked also a large track of cocoa farms in some of the districts in the region.

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