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Crop diversification lessens farmers’ dependence on one crop © CGIAR Climate (CC BY-NC-SA)

Here’s a taste of some of the latest stories about plant health, including a new rice variety to cushion farmers against crop loss through blast, a checklist of scale insect pests in Iran and Asian citrus growers looking to diversity their crop with bananas.

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• Bt sweet corn can reduce insecticide use
  EurekAlert! – Agriculture, 6th October 2013
• Kenya: New rice variety to give farmers more returns
  Popular Standard Digital News Feeds, 3rd October 2013
• Kenya: County Forms Farmers’ Co-Ops
  AllAfrica News: Food and Agriculture, 3rd October 2013
• Frosts slash Chilean kiwifruit crop
  Fresh Fruit Portal, 3rd October 2013
• Peculiar, diverse and dangerous to crops: A checklist of the scale insects of Iran
  EurekAlert! – Agriculture, 2nd October 2013
• Zambia: Dunavant Diversifies to Buying Maize, Soya Beans
  AllAfrica News: Food and Agriculture, 2nd October 2013
• Asian Citrus looking at bananas for diversification
  Fresh Plaza, 1st October 2013
• Caribbean farmers abandoning diseased banana fields
  New Agriculturist, 30th September 2013
• Building Climate Change Resilience in the Agriculture Sector
  IFPRI, 27th September 2013
• Africa: New Guide Will Help Farmers Adapt to Climate Change
  AllAfrica News: Food and Agriculture, 25th September 2013

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