NAIROBI, June 29 (Xinhua) -- The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations on Thursday selected Kenya as a pilot country to lead fall armyworm (FAW) research in the eastern Africa region.
Jingyuan Xia, director of the Plant Production and Protection Division at the FAO, said that Nairobi was selected as a research hub for the voracious pests given its strategic location and abundance of expertise.
