THE government is working with agricultural research organisations to encourage smallholder farmers to adopt natural means to control the fall armyworm as pesticides are both costly and detrimental to the environment. This comes amid estimates that show that Zimbabwe and 11 other maize-producing countries in sub-Saharan Africa could lose up to 17, 7 million tonnes…

A Nyanyadzi farmer proudly shows fall armyworm-free maize in her plot
