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Red spider mites are infesting coffee trees in Colombia © Gilles San Martin (CC BY-SA license)

Here’s a taste of some of the latest stories about plant health, including banana wilt affecting crops in Uganda, red spider mites infesting Colombian coffee plantations, and new varieties of rice resistant to Rice yellow mottle virus.

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• Sudan: Pests Proliferation in North Darfur
  AllAfrica News: Food and Agriculture, 11 September 2012
• Farmer-friendly policies enable China to feed itself
  XinhuaNet | English.news.cn, 29 August 2012
• India: Farmers worried by collapse of capsicum market
  FreshPlaza.com, 31 August 2012
• Medfly discovery prompts quarantine
  The Press-Enterprise, 28 August 2012
  
• Maize Technologies for Pakistan
  Crop Biotech Update, 5 September 2012
• Pest-fighting nematodes identified
  Western Farm Press, 23 August 2012
• Red Spider Mites Threaten Colombia Coffee Output
  Scientific American, 6 September 2012
• Breakthrough in the resistance to rice yellow mottle virus
  SeedQuest, 23 August 2012
• Fiji: Alert over papaya disease
  FreshPlaza.com, 30 August 2012
• Uganda may soon run out of bananas
  FreshPlaza.com, 29 August 2012

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