{"id":22112,"date":"2022-05-04T20:06:04","date_gmt":"2022-05-04T20:06:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/virus-breaks-out-affects-cassava-fields-in-chipili"},"modified":"2022-05-04T20:18:18","modified_gmt":"2022-05-04T20:18:18","slug":"virus-breaks-out-affects-cassava-fields-in-chipili","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/virus-breaks-out-affects-cassava-fields-in-chipili","title":{"rendered":"Virus breaks out, affects cassava fields in Chipili"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Zambia. <\/strong><\/span>Luapula Province Disaster Management and Mitigation Unit (DMMU) Regional Coordinator, Abel Mwape has disclosed that Mosaic Virus, a virus that effects cassava tubers has broken out in Chipili District, affecting over 400 hectares of cassava.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Mwape says the outbreak of the Mosaic virus has been compounded by the outbreak of terminates which are affecting cassava posing fears of devastating effects to the farmers.<\/p>\n<p>He said there is fear that the situation can be worse if nothing is done adding that the virus has the potential of completely destroying the crop. In an interview with ZANIS, in Mansa today Mr. Mwape said the DMMU is working closely with the Ministry of Agriculture to see how best to address the situation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs you may be aware that cassava is one of the major crops grown in the Province, most people depend on it for their livelihoods so we just have to find ways of addressing the problem if we are to avoid any hunger outbreak,\u201d Mr Mwape said.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Mwape further adds that DMMU in Luapula Province has already written to the Disaster Management and Mitigation Unit in Lusaka requesting for chemicals which can be used to disinfect all the affected fields before the outbreak spreads further.<\/p>\n<p>He points out that the Unit will also ensure that it provides new cassava cuttings to all the affected farmers for them to replant the crop. \u201cEfforts are being put in place to address this problem as soon as possible and because once we delay the problem can be worse and more families can be affected,\u201d he explained. Mr. Mwape has since urged all the affected families not to panic saying government is doing everything possible to address the matter.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\">Zambia<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Zambia. Luapula Province Disaster Management and Mitigation Unit (DMMU) Regional Coordinator, Abel Mwape has disclosed that Mosaic Virus, a virus that effects cassava tubers has broken out in Chipili District, affecting over 400 hectares of cassava. Mr. Mwape says the outbreak of the Mosaic virus has been compounded by the outbreak of terminates [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":22111,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8,9,16],"tags":[234,235,233],"class_list":["post-22112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-homepage-english","category-miscellaneous","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-zambia","tag-zambia"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Virus breaks out, affects cassava fields in Chipili - Zambia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Luapula Province Disaster Management and Mitigation Unit (DMMU) Regional Coordinator, Abel Mwape has disclosed that Mosa ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/virus-breaks-out-affects-cassava-fields-in-chipili\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Virus breaks out, affects cassava fields in Chipili\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Luapula Province Disaster Management and Mitigation Unit (DMMU) Regional Coordinator, Abel Mwape has disclosed that Mosa ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/virus-breaks-out-affects-cassava-fields-in-chipili\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Zambia\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-05-04T20:06:04+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-05-04T20:18:18+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zambia\/sites\/35\/2022\/05\/img-6272df6ec61bb.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"469\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/virus-breaks-out-affects-cassava-fields-in-chipili#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/virus-breaks-out-affects-cassava-fields-in-chipili\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Virus breaks out, affects cassava fields in Chipili\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-05-04T20:06:04+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-05-04T20:18:18+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/virus-breaks-out-affects-cassava-fields-in-chipili\"},\"wordCount\":305,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/virus-breaks-out-affects-cassava-fields-in-chipili#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zambia\/sites\/35\/2022\/05\/img-6272df6ec61bb.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Zambia\",\"Zambia\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"homepage-english\",\"miscellaneous\",\"twitter\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/virus-breaks-out-affects-cassava-fields-in-chipili#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/virus-breaks-out-affects-cassava-fields-in-chipili\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/virus-breaks-out-affects-cassava-fields-in-chipili\",\"name\":\"Virus breaks out, affects cassava fields in Chipili - 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