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Ants seen on an Indonesian cocoa pod © Sanjit Das/CABI

Here’s a taste of some of the latest stories about plant health, including native ants helping to improve cocoa yields in Indonesia, unseasonal rains affecting crops in India and local mangoes in the Philippines declared free from mango seed weevil.

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• Pest ants help to improve Indonesian cocoa yields
  International Association for the Plant Protection Sciences, 27^th January 2015

• Africa: Despite Contamination Concerns, Food Safety Push Must Embrace ‘Wet Markets’ as Key to Food Security
  AllAfrica News: Food and Agriculture, 27^th January 2015

• India: Untimely rains to hit onion production
  Fresh Plaza, 26^th January 2015

• Uganda: New project to reduce postharvest losses
  Fresh Plaza, 20^th January 2015

• Rwanda: FAO Expert Roots for Small Farmers, Agro””dealers
  AllAfrica News: Food and Agriculture, 20^th January 2015

• Listeria outbreak prompts apple recall
  Americafruit, 20th January 2015

• Global wheat yields threatened by warming with serious consequences
  Environmental News Network, 19^th January 2015

• Kenya: Potato Farming Loses Sh19 Billion to Bad Practices
  AllAfrica News: Food and Agriculture, 19^th January 2015

• Philippines: Local mangoes declared pest-free
  Fresh Plaza, 19^th January 2015

• New hope for fighting major fungal disease in durum wheat
  EurekAlert – Agriculture, 18^th January 2015

See more plant health news on the Plantwise Knowledge Bank.

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