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Farmers tipped on taming pest menace

Fall armyworms attacking a maize plant. [Courtesy]

Campaigners are rooting for biological methods of controlling crop pest and diseases by African small-holders farmers.

They said this would help minimise the negative impacts of conventional pesticides on the environment and human health.

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