Taiz discussing ways to protect maize crops from plant pests


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Taiz discussing ways to protect maize crops from plant pests
[05/ September/2024]
TAIZ September 05. 2024 (Saba) - A meeting in Taiz Governorate, chaired by the Governorate's Undersecretary for Development and Services Affairs, Abdul Wasa Al-Shamsi, discussed the protection of maize crops, and the activation of veterinary services in the governorate's directorates.

The meeting, which included members of the development team in Taiz, stressed the importance of protecting agricultural crops from pests and diseases, controlling the fall armyworm, which threatens maize crops, and ways to increase production in the Warzan nursery.

The meeting with a number of farmers reviewed the effects and results of the armyworm control campaigns implemented in some areas for a number of districts, including Mawiya, Khadir, and Al-Taiziya, where quantities of pesticides were disbursed, and the campaigns were implemented by the competent authorities and cooperative societies in the districts.

The solar agent stressed the importance of intensifying efforts and implementing more campaigns to combat plant pests in order to protect agricultural crops such as grains, fruits, and other crops grown in various directorates of the governorate.

He pointed to the importance of benefiting from the operational mechanism in which the Ibb Agricultural Nursery operates.