Other Plant Disease -- Nigeria
A rice disease suspected to be rice blast has invaded farmlands in Bauchi state. The disease, noticed in the area in the last 3 weeks, has wreaked havoc infesting about 20 hectares [about 49 acres] of rice farms across the area. "It is very difficult to assess the extent of damage to yields as the crops are at varying stages of growth," [a local official] stressed. "We have never recorded such pests in the last 4 years we have been carrying out irrigated (dry season) farming in the affected
Read more about it at HealthMap Global Disease Alerts via http://healthmap.org/ln.php?6551673&promed&0
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