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Farmers in some areas of Côte d'Ivoire have reported the appearance of black pod disease (Credit: Marie-Claude Bon, EBCL, USDA)

Farmers in some areas of Côte d’Ivoire have reported the appearance of black pod disease (Credit: Marie-Claude Bon, EBCL, USDA)

Here’s a taste of some of the latest stories about plant health, including a new disease resistant maize released for farmers in Kenya, bitter-sweet effects of rain on the Ivorian cocoa crop and how cheap mobiles phones are driving Myanmar’s farming revolution.

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