GOVERNMENT has disclosed that the country is currently sitting at 14.8 percent in terms of infestation levels of fall army worms since the outbreak late last year. Ministry of Agriculture Director for Agriculture Dr Chizumba Shepande says government has commenced the distribution of fall army worm chemicals to all the 166 districts.   In an interview, Tuesday, Dr Shepande said according to last week’s update, about 82,670 hectares of farm field had been affected by the fall army worms. “Basically, the latest update is about one week old. Usually, we receive weekly updates, but we haven’t received. We usually receive it on Monday and Tuesday, but we haven’t received the weekly update for this week so the statistics I have...

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