Five-Step Strategy to Control Beet Armyworm
The Rural Agricultural Development Authority (RADA) is recommending a five-step area-wide management (AWM) strategy to control the beet armyworm as the pest population increases locally. Beet armyworm, which mainly affects onion and scallion, devastated crop production in St. Elizabeth in the 1990s, and there is currently a surge in the population in Heartease, St. Thomas. Communities such as Albion, Norris,...
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