{"id":351608,"date":"2017-09-08T06:05:43","date_gmt":"2017-09-08T06:05:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=351608"},"modified":"2017-11-10T12:03:21","modified_gmt":"2017-11-10T12:03:21","slug":"govt-hasnt-defeated-fall-armyworms-yet-gawu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/09\/govt-hasnt-defeated-fall-armyworms-yet-gawu\/","title":{"rendered":"Gov&#8217;t hasn&#8217;t defeated fall armyworms yet &#8211; GAWU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ghana Agricultural Workers\u00a0Union (GAWU), has accused the government of belittling the impact of the fall army-worm invasion that has decimated farms across the country.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Union, despite not having faced an infestation of fall army-worms before, the new threat was brushed aside by the government.<\/p>\n<p>[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;UXXmuqNvEfmmgyPeXvUVtXrPl4qSZ0oG&#8221;]The government has on multiple occasions, announced that it has succeeded in ending the fall armyworm invasion.<\/p>\n<p>In August, the Agriculture Ministry stated that <span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/08\/27\/farms-recovering-from-army-worm-invasion-agric-ministry\/\">farms were recovering<\/a><\/strong><\/span> from the outbreak while Deputy Agriculture Minister, Dr. Sagre Bambangi declared that the armyworms had been <a href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/09\/04\/ue-weve-conquered-armyworms-dept-minister\/\"><span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong>conquered<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on<strong> Eyewitness News<\/strong> on Thursday, the General Secretary of GAWU, Edward Kareweh, dismissed the claims that the invasion has been quelled, adding that the nonchalant response from state institutions might have contributed to the failure to end the invasion.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The invasion is ongoing. As long as the armyworms continue to be on our soil, they\u2019ll continue to cause destruction because each day, the armyworm must live and destroy. As to whether you consider the destruction significant or not is up to your own judgement, but the armyworm continues to destroy. I don\u2019t think the armyworms have surrendered. The Ministry stated that they had defeated the armyworm completely which we disagreed with. I don\u2019t think we are near the stage where we can state that armyworms are out of our environment completely,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They might have known they did not have the full understanding of the armyworms and based on that they came to the wrong conclusion that they would defeat it completely. They might also have known the task was enormous, but said they would defeat it completely when they knew they could not. The fall armyworms are not like the normal armyworms. They have migrated from somewhere, we\u2019ve never encountered them before. It was better to be honest that you were not sure of the outcome of the battle with a new enemy, but would make sure it\u2019s defeated. If you look at the story all along, you get the sense that the challenges of defeating the armyworms have been downplayed to look as though we\u2019ll walk over them. Today they\u2019ve come to stay &#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Armyworms-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-328666\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Armyworms-4.jpg\" alt=\"armyworms-4\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" \/><\/a>According to Edward Kareweh, farmers are supposed to spray their farms about three times to curb an infestation of the fall army worms.<\/p>\n<p>However, he believes that not enough chemicals were provided to the farmers to effectively\u00a0protect their\u00a0crops.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Government did not appear to have provided the needed resources to be able to fight the armyworms. The quantities of chemicals and pesticides that were sent were not enough. Either the total chemicals available were not enough or enough was provided, but it didn&#8217;t get to the farmers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Edwin Kwakofi\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ghana Agricultural Workers\u00a0Union (GAWU), has accused the government of belittling the impact of the fall army-worm invasion that has decimated farms across the country. According to the Union, despite not having faced an infestation of fall army-worms before, the new threat was brushed aside by the government. 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