Plantwise Blog

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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• New disease resistant maize released for Kenyan farmers
  Standard Digital News, 19^th September 2014

• Mfarmer SMS Redefines Market Access for Uganda Farmers
  AllAfrica News: Food and Agriculture, 17^th September 2014

• Cultura do Morango é discutida em Jornada Técnica
  Embraca News – Brazil, 16^th September 2014

• Boosting global corn yields depends on improving nutrient balance
  EurekAlert – Agriculture, 16^th September 2014

• Pragas e doenças em hortaliças é tema de curso em dois municípios
  Embraca News – Brazil, 15^th September 2014

• Rains boosts Ivorian cocoa crop, but disease concerns grow
  Reuters, 15^th September 2014

• Cheap mobiles drive Myanmar’s farming revolution
  SciDev.Net, 15^th September 2014

• Ghana’s Groundnuts
  IFPRI info, 12^th September 2014

• India: Torrential rain poses challenge to kharif crop in Punjab, Haryana 
  India TV News, 6^th September 2014

• Climate change threatens to put the fight against hunger back by decades
  Guardian Professional, 2^nd September 2014

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