Hand over of Fall army worm equipment and promotion of Farmer Field School project

Pretoria, South Africa, 31/08/2020 31/08/2020

Represenatives from the Food and Agricultural Organisation of the United Nations (FAO), the Department of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development (DALRRD) and the Agricultural Research Counci (ARC), will be attending a small event to hand over equipment that will be used by small holder farmer to control Fall Army Worm (FAW). The equipment that will be banded over will be used in an FAO-ARC Farmer Field School project to help with the upscaling of control and monitoring of FAW by small holder farmers in the Limpopo and Mpumalanga Provinces in South Africa. 

 

It is a small event to ensure safety of all during the global pandemic.