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Published on 2025-04-19 15:40:33
The Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries, Water and Land Reform has sprayed about 1 965 hectares of locust-infested crop fields in the Zambezi region.
This aims to combat the current locust outbreak following an earlier fall armyworm outbreak and drought, which has threatened food security in the region.
Ministerial spokesperson Simon Nghipandulwa on Friday said the locust outbreak mainly affects maize crops and not mahangu or sorghum.
He noted that the approximately 168 farmers that…
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