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I am more than surprised to see that almost every farm I visit within this town is suffering from pestilence. These destructive pests are eating up the leaves and stems of growing crops, and this massive destruction can lead to a poor or no harvest.

Recollecting vividly how these pest infestations destroyed my vegetable garden at home, I see this as a serious matter that needs to be looked into. Having planted two species of vegetables in the months of April and May for my first session of gardening this year, I barely harvested a handful of vegetables.

Although I have been very busy with the more serious farm work lately, the fear of having pests destroy a second gardening session still bothers me. Hence, I was at the store just yesterday to make inquiries on what to do.

The local seed seller here told me that even the insect population and pest population are very hungry this year and that the hunger in the lad has not exempted them either. I found this amusing, but she was serious with her speech, and it's obvious that the pests are really hungry, eating and causing massive destruction everywhere. This might just be a local saying, but the crop destruction is real.

Having narrated to her my ordeal concerning my first gardening session and the pestilence case she has measured out and given me the chemicals for control measures

she showed me how to apply this to my garden after planting. It is an inorganic chemical for pest control that she has often used herself.

What prompted me to go on this search was the current state of this farm here.

You can see the damaging effect of pestilence on these maize crops.

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While the corn has stated producing tassals and see pouches already, some have been destroyed completely and deterred from doing so. The corn has managed to survive through the ordeal to this stage of production.

If the crops were much younger than this when the pestilence attached, it would have destroyed and deterred them from growing up to this level.
But the corn in this area is a bit lucky at this time to have escaped that early-stage attack.

I believe that prevention is better than cure, and as much as I see this on different farms in different locations, I am determined to find a solution before any of these diseases go near our own farms too.

Trying this purchased pesticide chemical on my vegetables will be a way to prove if it will be effective or not. And hopefully I will also check it at the Main Agric store later to find out what better solution I might find.

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