{"id":187873,"date":"2025-01-04T02:11:37","date_gmt":"2025-01-04T00:11:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-armyworm-outbreak-hits-mashonaland-east-province\/"},"modified":"2025-01-04T02:11:37","modified_gmt":"2025-01-04T00:11:37","slug":"zimbabwe-armyworm-outbreak-hits-mashonaland-east-province","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-armyworm-outbreak-hits-mashonaland-east-province\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Armyworm Outbreak Hits Mashonaland East Province"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">ZIMBABWE Commercial Farmers Union (ZCFU) president, Shadreck Makumbe has warned farmers to be on the lookout for armyworms during the ongoing rain season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">This comes after a number of African army worm attacks have been reported by farmers in Mashonaland East province.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">The African army worm has for years been a problem to Zimbabwean farmers, and it emerges during wet seasons, attacking cereal crops mainly maize, wheat and sorghum.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">In an interview with New Zimbabwe.com, Makumbe encouraged farmers&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202501030211.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zimbabwe\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/\">Zimbabwe<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ZIMBABWE Commercial Farmers Union (ZCFU) president, Shadreck Makumbe has warned farmers to be on the lookout for armyworms during the ongoing rain season. This comes after a number of African army worm attacks have been reported by farmers in Mashonaland East province. The African army worm has for years been a problem to Zimbabwean farmers, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[258,256,13664,6719,7111,2183,257,6582,11048,254,4686,421],"class_list":["post-187873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-armyworm","tag-east","tag-hits","tag-mashonaland","tag-news","tag-outbreak","tag-province","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187873\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}