The Minister of Agiculture, Dr. Owusu Afriyie Akoto has said individuals highlighting the destruction caused by fall army worms are an attempt by saboteurs to cover the successes chopped by the planting for Food and Jobs project.
The Minister who was speaking to Accra-based Starr FM said “The point of the matter is that those who are seeing the success of the planting for food and jobs want to tarnish that success by saying that there are some worms hiding somewhere eating the crops to bring about hunger and not the bumper crop”.
The Minister ate a humble pie on his earlier statement indicating that the fall army worm had been defeated.
He said “Have you ever in history from the Romans till now go to war and say that you have defeated the enemy by killing every soldier? no, when you kill some soldiers and they raise their flags, you have defeated them and if they were not defeated I wouldn’t be talking about bumper crop and marketing and all those concerns”.
source: a1radioonline.com
