A plague of fall army- worm that has spread to all the country’s provinces has infested nearly 150 000 hectares posing a serious threat to the country’s major staple food crop— maize. AGRITEX plant expert Rutendo Nhongonhema told plant and animal disease experts who met recently in the capital to discuss the spiralling fall army worm outbreak which is destroying maize crops and posing a major threat to food security, that a total of 148 489 hectares had been infested so far out of the total national maize hectarage of 975 913.