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Bangladesh is harvesting a bumper production from stress tolerant rice varieties © IRRI (CC BY-NC-SA)

Here’s a taste of some of the latest stories about plant health, including a bumper harvest for Bangladesh from stress tolerant rice varieties, news that plant production could decline as climate change affects soil nutrients, and Autralia’s Minister for the Environment launches a new sustainability app for farmers.

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• Infectious Panama disease in bananas spreads further again
  Fresh Plaza, 4th November 2013
• Zimbabwe: Grow Potatoes to Enhance Food Security – SIRDC
  AllAfrica News: Food and Agriculture, 1st November 2013
• Plant production could decline as climate change affects soil nutrients
  EurekAlert – Agriculture, 31st October 2013
• Minister launches new sustainability app for farmers
  Fresh Plaza, 28th October 2013
• Stimulating the supply of ginger disease management products in Nepal
  The Guardian, 28th October 2013
• Ethiopia: Agribusiness Silently Erodes Agriculture
  AllAfrica News: Food and Agriculture, 27th October 2013
• Tanzania: Banana Wilt, a Disaster Eating Into Kagera Region
  AllAfrica News: Food and Agriculture, 26th October 2013
• Cuts to crops could help growers bounce back after drought
  Fresh Plaza, 25th October 2013
• Bangladesh Has Bumper Harvest from Stress Tolerant Rice Varieties
  Crop Biotech Update, 23rd October 2013
• Pesticides on a plate [Sri Lanka]
  The Nation, 20^th October 2013

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