UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) says it will provide more than 2000 insect lure traps to southern African countries worst affected by crop - destroying caterpillars commonly known as armyworms that have ravaged hundreds of hectares of maize in the region. Read More

A combination of excessive rain and a plague of fall armyworms that has spread to all the country’s provinces have put a damper on prospects for a good harvest in the 2016 – 2017 cropping season. Read More

Farmers should not despair and should continue with their land preparations for the 2016 -2017 cropping season despite the late on-set of rains, weather expert and director of the Meteorological Services Department Dr Amos Makarau says. Read More

Smallholder farmers from Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe are set to benefit from a US$1 million UN Food and Agriculture Organisation – Benefit Sharing Fund project that aims to promote crop diversity conservation and reduce the impact of climate change and other natural disasters on the livelihoods of resource - poor farmers. Read More

Negative attitude still remains one of the biggest barrier to the adoption of small grains in drought – prone parts of the country, agricultural experts say. Read More