Scientists outsmart fall army worm

Winfred Murithi, a farmer in Embu County demonstrates how she monitors her farm using the Delta trap technology. [David Njaaga, Standard]

John Mugambi was one of the distressed farmers who thronged a plant clinic at a market in Manyatta Sub Location, Off Embu town one drizzly morning.

Armed with a maize plant he had uprooted from his farm, Mr Mugambi wanted the plant doctors at the clinic to explain why there were transparent spots on some plants on his farm.