{"id":47763,"date":"2019-08-13T06:34:42","date_gmt":"2019-08-13T11:34:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=47763"},"modified":"2019-08-13T06:34:46","modified_gmt":"2019-08-13T11:34:46","slug":"fall-armyworm-invades-china-wreaks-havoc-on-agriculture-lands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=47763","title":{"rendered":"‘Fall Armyworm’ Invades China; Wreaks Havoc On Agriculture Lands"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

‘Fall Armyworm’ Invades China; Wreaks Havoc On Agriculture Lands<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

China’s agriculture ministry warned<\/a> in June that it found fall armyworms in 21 provinces, across 333,000 hectares of crops.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fall armyworms (Spodoptera frugiperda<\/em>) are a destructive garden pest that can destroy a variety of crops as well as grasses.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chinese officials are worried<\/a> about prevention and control measures of the pest might be failing, which could lead to crop losses this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Beijing warned fall armyworms could damage hundreds, if not thousands of hectares of crops, leading to possible food security issues for the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To counter the pest, China has requested farmers in the 21 provinces to use government-approved pesticides.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The “heart-devouring worm” – as locals call it – has spread almost 1,900 miles north since migrating from neighboring Myanmar earlier this year, now threatens 21 provinces and regions in China and could heavily impact the country’s grain output.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Yunnan, a province in southwestern China, the pest has already destroyed 86,000 hectares of corn, sugarcane, sorghum, and ginger crops.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fall armyworm started to spread through Africa and Asia in 2016, these pests, which are moths, fly 60 miles per night, is very challenging for farmers and governments to exterminate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The pests have strained small farmers, who produce at least 90% of the country’s crop.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In hard-hit Yunnan, the local government has installed 3,500 monitoring sites at farms to observe the pests and agriculture conditions, the provincial agriculture bureau wrote to Reuters via email.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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‘Fall Armyworm’ Invades China; Wreaks Havoc On Agriculture Lands China’s agriculture ministry warned in June that it found fall armyworms in 21 provinces, across 333,000 hectares of crops. Fall armyworms (Spodoptera frugiperda) are a destructive garden pest that can destroy a variety of crops as well as grasses. Chinese officials are worried about prevention and control measures of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[26513,130,2495,299,26514],"class_list":["post-47763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-armyworms","tag-china","tag-crops","tag-farming","tag-pest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47763"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47764,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47763\/revisions\/47764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}