Here’s a taste of some of the latest stories about plant health, including the encouragement of citizen cooperation in the fight against fruit flies in Chile, exciting new projects to improve agriculture in Ecuador and an update from IITA on the spread of papaya mealybug in Tanzania.
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- Chile: SAG urges citizen cooperation in fruit fly fight
Fresh Fruit Portal, 5th May 2015
- Vietnam: Drought causes farmers to halt cultivation
Fresh Plaza, 5th May 2015
- New projects for Ecuador’s agriculture
Fresh Plaza, 5th May 2015
- Food security: Wasting Less of Africa’s Harvest in Order to Prosper
International Association for the Plant Protection Sciences, 4th May 2015
- Fungi enhances crop roots and could be a future ‘bio-fertilizer’
EurekAlert – Agriculture, 4th May 2015
- Uganda: Ugandan Farmers Get Backyard Tips
AllAfrica News: Food and Agriculture, 3rd May 2015
- Tanzania Invaded By the Deadly Papaya Mealy Bug Disease
AllAfrica News: Food and Agriculture, 3rd May 2015
- Tanzania: Farmers to Benefit From Programme
AllAfrica News: Food and Agriculture, 2nd May 2015
- WhatsApp turns trading platform for Indian farmers
Fresh Plaza, 30th April 2015
- Nigeria: ‘Food Production Not Keeping Pace With Population Growth’
AllAfrica News: Food and Agriculture, 30th April 2015
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