Other Plant Disease -- India
The government is burning standing wheat crop on at least 1000 hectares [2471 acres] after symptoms of "wheat blast disease" showed up. With parts of Murshidabad and Nadia districts that share border with Bangladesh being affected, the state administration suspects that the fungus has sneaked in from Bangladesh.
In 2016, the fungus entered Asia for the first time in Bangladesh [ProMED-mail post http://bit.ly/23iPX78] where crops of over 20 000 hectares had to be
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