AGRICULTURAL NEWS - Verdoorn said that cooperation between the Department of Agriculture, Forestry & Fisheries (DAFF) and the Agricultural Research Council (ARC), as well as industry bodies such as Grain SA and Croplife SA, meant that the situation was well in hand.
He added that speedy chemical registrations when the pest was first detected had enabled farmers to react quickly to the threat posed by FAW (Spodoptera frugiperda).
There were also indications that BT variety maize planted by much of the commercial sector had provided some form of resistance.
