Other Plant Disease -- Worldwide/Unknown
A crop-disease outbreak is giving Europe's struggling sugar farmers another thing to worry about. Hit by a dry spring that stressed beets after planting, growers now have to contend with the spread of beet yellows. Transmitted by aphids, it could cut sugar production by as much as 25% in France and even more in Germany, threatening to lower EU production for a 3rd season.
Fighting the disease has become harder since the European Union widened a ban on neonicotinoid insecticides in 2018.
Read more about it at HealthMap Global Disease Alerts via http://healthmap.org/ln.php?7583302&promed&0
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