ZAW CONCERNED WITH RIPPLE EFFECTS OF RED LOCUST
By Moses Banda, The Zambia Alliance of Women is extremely worried with the ripple effects that the outbreak of African Migratory Red Locusts in some parts of the country are posing to farmers. And Alliance Executive Director, Edah Chimya fears that lifting families out of the poverty trap will be a difficult task if the country does not contain the Locusts. Mrs. Chimya says the locusts are a big threat to the national food security in view of the fact that the majority of the population in the country, women in particular rely on agriculture for a living. She has since appealed to farmers in areas that have not yet being invaded by the locusts not to hesitate to report to Ministry of Agriculture if they manifest in their areas. Further Mrs.Chimya states that while her organization appreciates that the International Red Locust Control Organization for Central and Southern Africa has started the extermination of the African Migratory Locusts stakeholders must not to lea...