Farmers in Mashonaland Central and Mashonaland West provinces have been urged to be on the lookout for an African Army-worm outbreak following results of trap catches recorded in the past week.
Head of the Department of Plant Quarantine and Plant Protection Services in the Ministry of Lands, Agriculture, Water and Rural Resettlement, Mr Shingirayi Nyamutukwa said farmers should be on the lookout as the African army worm is more destructive than the fall army-worm.
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