How to Identify and Scout for Fall Armyworm: Variant for South Sudan in English (USA)

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04:40:00

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2022

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Being a notorious pest for the maize plant leading to its low production, fall army worm can be controlled by the farmer using simple technology. Being an insect that damage maize crop, a farmer should scout and treat early to prevent it from maize and treat with faligen bio-pesticide as soon as he sees army worm damage through monitoring the field weekly as soon as maize emerges.

Pest management

First, scout field in a W pattern for random scouting of field and when scouting, walk5m into field and move to 5 locations and scout boader rows and look at 10-20 plants closely for eacj location for the signs of armyworm damage.
Similarly, record number of plants at first location with damage of fall army worm and move to the next location and do the same and then to all locations as well. If 2 of 10 plants in each location are damaged, treat with faligen bio-pesticide.
After spraying, no one should enter the field until it dries and finally re-scout field after a week and repeat spraying every week for 3-5 weeks.
Sequence from Sequence to Description
00:0000:26Fall army worm is an insect that damage maize crops.
00:2700:34Scout and treat early the fall army worm.
00:3500:46Treat with bio-pesticide as soonas you see fall army worm damages.
00:4701:16Monitor field weekly as soon as maize emerge.
01:1701:29Scout field in a W pattern for random scouting of field.
01:3001:42To scout, walk in field in a W pattern to 5 locations.
01:4301:57Do ot scout boader rows and look at plants closely for each location.
01:5802:18Record number of plants damaged for each locaton.
02:1902:52Treat with bio-pesticide if 2 of 10 plants are damaged with fall army worm.
02:5303:00After spraying, no one should enter field until it is dry.
03:0103:13Rescout field after a week and repeat spraying every week for 3-5 weeks.
03:1404:40Summary

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