{"id":73568,"date":"2019-01-24T03:21:28","date_gmt":"2019-01-24T01:21:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=73568"},"modified":"2019-01-24T03:21:28","modified_gmt":"2019-01-24T01:21:28","slug":"fol-advocates-use-of-treated-seed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2019\/01\/24\/fol-advocates-use-of-treated-seed\/","title":{"rendered":"FOL advocates use of treated seed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>By Emmanuel Chirwa: <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Farmers Organisation Limited (FOL) has urged local farmers to be using treated seeds as a remedy to the fall armyworm.<\/p>\n<p>FOL National Sales and Marketing Manager, Ronald Chilumpha said Wednesday during a media briefing on the innovations the company has brought on the market.<\/p>\n<p>Chilumpha said chemically dressed seeds are protected from pests for a period of six weeks after germination.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cSeed dressing is a best technology we can benefit from as a country,\u201d<\/em> Chilumpha said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Currently, pesticides used against the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/fall-armyworm-attacks-206000-hectares\/\">fall armyworms<\/a> include Steward 150 EC, Belt 480 SC, Proclaim Fit, Chlorpyrifos, Decis Forte, Deltanex and a seed dresser, Monceret GT.<\/p>\n<p>Another seed dresser, Fortenza Duo pesticide which is specific for the fall armyworms is yet to be registered.<\/p>\n<p>Innovations from FOL include 2-4D Pesticide for rice, Termidor, an insecticide against termites, which has replaced chlordane which was banned for its high toxicity.<\/p>\n<p>Chilumpha said these products are greener, less toxic, effective and affordable.<\/p>\n<p>Since 2016, the nation has been grappling with of fall armyworms and in 2017\/2018 growing season, more than 300 hectares of crop land was devastated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Emmanuel Chirwa: Farmers Organisation Limited (FOL) has urged local farmers to be using treated seeds as a remedy to the fall armyworm. FOL National Sales and Marketing Manager, Ronald Chilumpha said Wednesday during a media briefing on the innovations the company has brought on the market. Chilumpha said chemically dressed seeds are protected from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":73572,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73568"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73573,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73568\/revisions\/73573"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}