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| | Army worms destroy 20,000 hectares of crops (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13) |
 | | Worms have already been spotted in Babati District, the headquarters of the newly-created Manyara Region in northwestern Tanzania. |
 | | The centre said the regions most prone to the worm attack this year were Dodoma, Iringa, Lindi, Mbeya, Morogoro, Mtwara, Rukwa, Ruvuma, Singida and Tabora. |
 | | A document on the African army worm compiled by the Regional Army Worm Programme of Desert Locust Control Organisation for Eastern Africa says that different insecticides, in a variety of formulations, could be used effectively against worms. |
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