Wednesday, 30 January 2019

PRO/PL> Late blight, potato - Nigeria: (PL)

Other Plant Disease -- Nigeria
Last year [2018] was tough for potato farmers in Plateau State, the country's main producer of potatoes. The rainy season aggravated the plight as blight, a potent potato disease, ravaged most farms. Crises and blight therefore led to a rapid rise in the cost of potato seeds [tubers].
Seeds were expensive in 2018 because [of] crises [making] farmers unable to harvest their crops [and] the ravaging potato blight during the rainy season. [For] seed imported from Holland, new varieties would

Read more about it at HealthMap Global Disease Alerts via http://healthmap.org/ln.php?6286551&promed&0

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