• Most of the districts across the nation are compounded with Army worms and Fall worms.
• Copperbelt has got very scanty cases.
• PACO for the Province and DACOs are directed to monitor the situation on the ground.

Copperbelt Permanent Secretary has directed the Provincial Agricultural Coordinating Officer (PACO) and District Agriculture Coordinating Officers (DACOs) to be on the ground and monitor the fall army worm invasion on maize fields in the province.
Speaking in an interview with Money FM News, Bright Nundwe said although the province has scanty cases of Army worm infestation, there is need for the PACO and DACOs to check how affected farmers are spraying different chemicals in the fields to ensure they are doing it correctly.
Mr. Nundwe stated that this is to ensure that crops are protected from further damage so that the Province can record another bumper harvest in the 2020/2021 agriculture season.
“Most of the districts across the nation are compounded with Army worms and Fall worms, and Copperbelt we have got very scanty cases.”
“I am advising and directing the PACO for the Province, and all the District Agriculture Officers across the board, this is not the time to sit in the office, get into the field monitor what is happening, check the fall worms and the army worms and the locusts, monitor how people are spraying the chemicals, the insecticide, the rodenticide, they need to monitor, we want again this season 2020/2021 farming season to record another bumper harvest. And so far, this province is doing extremely well,” Mr. Nundwe stated.
Last month, over 21, 00 hectares of maize on the Copperbelt were infested by the fall army worms.
Provincial Agriculture Coordinating Officer Obvious Kabinda said all the ten districts in the Province were affected, translating into 28, 000 households being affected.