Latakia-SANA
Fall Armyworm is one of the most dangerous pests that destroys the yellow corn crop in addition to rice, sugar cane, sorghum and other important crops and is active after mid-summer until autumn.
Engineer Yasser Muhammad, head of the Prevention Department in the Directorate of Agriculture in Lattakia Governorate, said in a statement to SANA reporter that a program was implemented to combat the worm that included choosing the planting date and the appropriate variety, getting rid of the remnants of the previous crop, plowing the soil to kill the virgins in it and flooding the soil with water, and then monitoring the fields after germination through Setting pheromone traps for the worm, collecting eggs and disposing of them in a technical way, adopting biological control, and not using insecticides in the early stages of the growth of the crop to give the opportunity to multiply the vital enemies that are already in the area, in addition to interfering with the use of nutritional inhibitors if available as they do not affect the vital enemies.
Muhammad indicated that through the application of these measures, a significant decrease in the infection rate was observed compared to last year, in addition to the role of unsuitable climatic conditions for the pest, as the infection rate decreased, according to the latest statistics, to less than two percent.
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