Thursday 02 August 2018
08:00 pm / Saba Net
Ibb - Saba:
Launched today in Ibb provinceCampaign to fight the insect of the "Fall army worm"Which is implemented by the governorate office with support and funding from the Ministry of Agriculture and Irrigation
In the directorates of Al-Dhahar, Mishnah and Al-MakhderAnd rural Ibb and De-Safal.
The campaign of five field teams aims to eliminate the insect in the target districts using the "neem herbicide", one of the types of biocides derived from plant origin that does not harm the environment.
Deputy Director General of the Agriculture OfficeEngineer Ali Mohammed Sabri said that the insect Fall army wormthat emerged recently in Yemen through its transfer from Africa and America is characterized as active at night to destroy the agricultural crops by the final concentration of the infection in the suppression of the plant
He pointed to the multiplicity of plant families of this insect in Yemen, which exceeded the Nigerian family, such as corn, wheat, banana, sugar cane, pepper, spinach and other agricultural crops, which increases the seriousness and expansion of the spread.
Eng. Sabri explained that the chemical control of the insect is useless in the third phase of the larvae, which constitutes 70% of the total damage caused to agricultural crops.
He pointed out that the insect of the crowd multiplies very quickly as the female puts between 1000 and 1000 eggs in each whitening process and reaches its life cycle in ideal conditions to 30 days, which requires sufficient support to ensure the continuation of control campaigns to avoid the great damage to crops, which cast a dark shadow on The national economy and the level of food security, especially in light of the current situation in the country.