Tag page - Fall Armyworm (FAW)

ZAMBOANGA CITY – The Office of the City Agriculturist reported that fall armyworms have destroyed six hectares of corn in Barangay Mampang here. Edgardo Ramos, barangay kagawad and chairperson of the barangay Committee on Agriculture, said around 20 members of the Mampang Integrated Farmers...

Fall armyworm (FAW) began to threaten some rice fields in the Philippines, prompting the Department of Agriculture (DA) to prepare the country’s rice research and development workers for the possible infestation in more farms. A statement showed that DA’s Philippine Rice Research Institute...