Zimbabwean farmers face crop-munching armyworm after drought

 Abigail Kadirire picks a dark green caterpillar with white stripes off a ragged and torn maize plant and puts it on her palm. She is clearly distressed.

“This is the second time this farming season that I am seeing it in my fields,” the 42-year-old single mother-of-six said in Kamutepe village, in the northern Rushinga area, some 250 km (155 miles) from the capital Harare.

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