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The Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries is today assuring farmers that the Ministry is taking steps to monitor and control the recent outbreak of the Beet Army Worm Disease in the parishes of Manchester and St Elizabeth. The Ministry has taken note of the impact of the disease especially on onion and scallion farmers in those parishes and is therefore appealing to the affected farmers, farmers of other produce and the public at large, to join in combatting the disease by implementing several mitigating strategies. The Ministry, though its extension services arm, the...