Other Plant Disease -- Ethiopia
An outbreak of wheat rust in critical wheat-growing regions is threatening recent crop production gains, following a long period of drought. In late August [2016], surveys first spotted rust in Oromia and southern regions, [it] has since spread to Amhara and Tigray. As of October [2016], the disease has been detected in nearly 2200 communities and on close to 300 000 hectares of land across the country.
Although yellow rust is by far the most widespread identified, stem and leaf rust have
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