UN EXPERTS CONTAIN UGANDA BANANA DISEASE OUTBREAK
September 1st, 2008
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UN Food & Agriculture Organisation has helped more than 3,000 Uganda banana producers contain an outbreak of banana bacterial wilt (BBW), a potentially devastating disease. Its experts have introduced precautionary planting methods preventing the pathogen spreading.
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THE UN Food & Agriculture Organisation has helped more than 3,000 Uganda banana producers contain an outbreak of banana bacterial wilt (BBW), a potentially devastating disease. Its experts have introduced precautionary planting methods preventing the pathogen spreading.
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