Other Plant Disease -- Ecuador
Purple top of potatoes is an emerging disease worldwide and has been reported in Ecuador recently. The disease is very difficult to control and causes significant economic losses to growers, due to severe damage to tubers, reduced yield, or even total crop loss.
Vice Minister of Agriculture, Byron Flores, said, "This disease has already been present for some years in other countries and growers have had to learn to live with it." He reported that the Ministry, to help solve the problem, is
Read more about it at HealthMap Global Disease Alerts via http://healthmap.org/ln.php?6617432&promed&0
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