Basic school students find solution to armyworm

Europa

September 21, 2017 3:03 PM

Their invention comes as the government puts in measures to deal with the armyworms that have destroyed large acres of farms across the country.

Three basic school students in the Nabdam District of the Upper East region have come up with a chemical which they claim is a solution to the fall armyworm attack.

The students are Joseph Adule Aberika and Elizabeth Nagroug from the Kongo Junior High School and Elizabeth Bugre from the Presentation Junior High School.

“We made a garden. We tested it. It drove away the [armyworms] but they came back to destroy the maize. It is used temporarily, not permanently,” one of the students, Elizabeth Nagroug explained.

The students displayed the chemical at the 7th Regional Science, Technology, Mathematics and Innovation Education (STMIE) Camp held in Bolgatanga, the regional capital, to the applause of many educationists who were gathered.

The students asked government to support their school with a science laboratory to enable them do further research on an anti-armyworm chemical which would deliver better results.

The Ghana Education Service (GES) has commended the move, describing it as “a good start” and urged for more research at “a higher level”.

Europa

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