Chunya farmers to start planting cotton again
26/08/2008
Research about the pest, which began in 2005-06, is to come to an end this year. IT was conducted in various regions in order to examine how much damage it had done to crops. The initial results show that red bollwarm is still present in areas such as Mbala, Ifumbo, Magamba, Kanga, Galula and Chan'gombe (excluding Mapogoro).
The red bollwarm had forced cotton farmers to divert their crop and grow sunflowers which could be sold to processors who extracted oil from them. However, the growers were not satisfied with this as this industry did not offer them financial security.
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