Food and Agriculture or FAO introduced a new medicine call FAWLIGAN which is now on testing stage aiming to kill fall army warm that feeds on maize and destroys it at early age.
Fawligan is a new medicine produced in form of a liquid recently in Nairobi, Kenya that a farmer can spray on maize at evening hours when it seems not to rain that day and it kills fall army warm within four to seven days.
Phillip Bullen Zebidaya, FAO field officer in Yambio says farmers who have sprayed FAWLIGAN on their maize plantations have confirmed that it kills the warms in Yambio of Gbudue State.
He was talking in a special Radio Programme with farmers at Nambiri in Gitikiri Buma of Bazungua Payam.
Jenty Wilson Naumba, a female farmer at Nambiri farmers’ Association in Yambio says of recent this year FAO donated FAWLIGAN to their group and they spayed it on their maize which was badly affected by fall army warm.
The medicine successfully killed all warms which was destroying their maize now their maize will produce good yield this year.
Simon Yerimo Miagiani, another farmer, says FAO in partnership with Star Trust
Organization has trained farmers in their group on how to use Fawligan on their farms.
Abisai Yepeta, Director of Agriculture and Extension Service in the State Ministry of
Agriculture in Gbudue State says the government and the partners will make sure the medicine is available to farmers though it is expensive.
Fall arm warm is a new pest in South Sudan coming from Americas and it arrives to some parts of African in 2016 and spread to South Sudan in 2017.