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Guidelines - The prevention of Tropical race 4 (TR4) for practitioners in the field

TR4 Global Network - An initiative of the World Banana Forum

Year of publication 2020

Place of publication Rome, Italy ;

Pages 36 p.

Author FAO

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Booklet

Synopsis (short abstract) Developed by the facilitators of the TR4 Global Network (TR4GN), Guidelines on the prevention of Tropical race 4 (TR4) for practitioners in the field aims to provide farmers/growers and extension workers with support to create their own TR4 prevention plans. Rather than ready-made solutions, the guidelines are frameworks that each farmer/grower or extension staff worker can use to begin to customize specific local solutions. Based on a trove of information gathered by FAO in consultation with various regional, national, and international stakeholders and actors, the guidelines offer advice to farmers/growers and extension workers on how to develop a TR4 action plan; how to develop a TR4 risk management plan; how to check compliance with biosecurity measures according to international standards; and how to develop TR4 communication materials (mainly for extension agents).

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