Plantwise Blog

Ecuador plans to improve traceability of its products from field to market. Photo by Vilseskogen/Chris Yardin, via Flickr

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.

Click on the link to read more of the latest plant health news!

• Chile: SAG urges citizen cooperation in fruit fly fight
  Fresh Fruit Portal, 5^th May 2015

• Vietnam: Drought causes farmers to halt cultivation
  Fresh Plaza, 5^th May 2015

• New projects for Ecuador’s agriculture
  Fresh Plaza, 5^th May 2015

• Food security: Wasting Less of Africa’s Harvest in Order to Prosper
  International Association for the Plant Protection Sciences, 4^th May 2015

• Fungi enhances crop roots and could be a future ‘bio-fertilizer’
  EurekAlert – Agriculture, 4^th May 2015

• Uganda: Ugandan Farmers Get Backyard Tips
  AllAfrica News: Food and Agriculture, 3^rd May 2015

• Tanzania Invaded By the Deadly Papaya Mealy Bug Disease
  AllAfrica News: Food and Agriculture, 3^rd May 2015

• Tanzania: Farmers to Benefit From Programme
  AllAfrica News: Food and Agriculture, 2^nd May 2015

• WhatsApp turns trading platform for Indian farmers
  Fresh Plaza, 30^th April 2015

• Nigeria: ‘Food Production Not Keeping Pace With Population Growth’
  AllAfrica News: Food and Agriculture, 30^th April 2015

See more plant health news on the Plantwise Knowledge Bank.

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