date:Oct 30, 2018
ntifying and speedily implementing measures to curtail the spread of the fall armyworm has become priority for Indias agricultural scientists.
The armyworms' favourite foods are maize, millet, sorghum, sugarcane, rice and wheat, while it is also capable of feasting on cowpea, groundnut, potato, soybean and cotton. And it has a tendency to spread to new territories fast.
The fall armyworm has spread to states neighbouring Karnataka in barely one month, Gopi Ramasamy, country director for India