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Farmers are making good profit from early variety potatoes © bengal*foam

Here’s a taste of some of the latest stories about plant health, including farmers in Bangladesh benefiting from early variety potatoes, water-saving technology introduced to rice farms in Vietnam and a model guava farm developed in India using traditional and modern methods.

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• Bangladesh: Early potato growers benefit
  Fresh Plaza, 2^nd December 2014

• Nigeria celebrates women farmers
  Fresh Plaza, 1^st December 2014

• Brazilian mangos in abundance
  Fresh Plaza, 1^st December 2014

• Ethiopia: Low Agricultural Productivity Systemic Rather Than Seasonal
  AllAfrica News: Food and Agriculture, 30^th November 2014

• Africa: Climate Change and Knowledge From Peru’s Indigenous Roots
  AllAfrica News: Food and Agriculture, 28^th November 2014

• Four devastating fruit flies pests are one and the same species
  IPPC News, 28^th November 2014

• India: Techies develop model guava farm
  Fresh Plaza, 28^th November 2014

• Growing with brackish water in the desert
  Fresh Plaza, 27^th November 2014

• Cane grubs not crazy ants blamed for sugar crop decline
  ABC News – Pests, 28^th November 2014

• Water-saving Technology for Rice Farms Introduced
  Agricultural and Biofuel News – ENN, 10^th November 2014

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