China warns of armyworm outbreak

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Source: http://usa.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2...t_15676267.htm


China warns of armyworm outbreak
Updated: 2012-08-14 22:00
(Xinhua)

BEIJING - China's agriculture authority on Tuesday warned local governments of an armyworm outbreak, pressing government departments to heed pest prevention and control advice to ensure grain security in the world's most populous nation.

A spokesman for the Crop Production Department of the the Ministry of Agriculture (MOA) said the recent outbreak of armyworms in major grain producing regions in northern and northeastern China has posed a severe threat to the production of corn and rice in the country.

"We haven't seen such a pest plague in so many places in almost a decade," the spokesman said in a new brief on the MOA website...

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Re: China warns of armyworm outbreak

Source: http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/chin...ak-280853.html

Northern China Crops Decimated by Pest Outbreak
By Fang Xiao
Epoch Times Staff Created: August 17, 2012

Crops in northern and northeastern China have been hit by huge infestations of ?armyworm? since early August with decreased or zero yields.(Wikimedia Commons)

Crops in northern and northeastern China have been hit by huge infestations of ?armyworm? since early August with decreased or zero yields. Several farmers have died from pesticide poisoning after trying to save their crops...