DAVAO CITY The Department of Agriculture (DA) is trying to confirm if the destructive Fall Armyworm has reached Davao Region.
DAVAO CITY The Department of Agriculture (DA) is trying to confirm if the destructive Fall Armyworm has reached Davao Region.
The threat of the Armyworm (Spodoptera frugiperda), which has attacked parts of South America and Asia, loomed large after agriculturists recovered larvae resembling that of the Armyworm in Baguio District, Davao City, and Malalag in Davao del Sur.
Marilou Infante, chief of the regional crop protection center of the DA’s Davao Region office, said samples of the larvae were sent to the Bureau of Plant and Industry in Manila for confirmatory tests.
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