‘7,000 dunums in Karak infected with cereal leaf miner’

By Petra - Mar 25,2015 - Last updated at Mar 25,2015

SOUTHERN MAZAR — A total of 7,000 dunums in the Southern Mazar District in Karak are infected with the cereal leaf miner, Nasser Masarweh, the district’s agriculture director, said Wednesday.

He added that the Agriculture Ministry has provided the district with the necessary pesticides to fight this pest, which mainly affects wheat and barley, noting that around 4,500 dunums of infected land were sprayed.

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