Virus remains a global threat – disease control strongly improved
Recent avian influenza outbreaks in 15 countries demonstrate that the H5N1 virus remains a global threat and requires close monitoring and strong control efforts, FAO said today. Since December 2007, Bangladesh, Benin, China, Egypt, Germany,
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Global plant genetics policy and research unite with emergency operations against lethal crop disease
Just as a system for the world wide exchange of plant genetic resources was made operational by the international community in Rome, farmers in Burundi kicked off a new season, planting cassava free of a
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Dioxins are formed as unwanted by-products from a number of human activities including certain industrial processes. In terms of dioxins release into the environment, waste incinerators are often the worst culprits due to incomplete burning.
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Ducks, people and rice paddies – rather than chickens – are the major factors behind outbreaks of H5N1 highly pathogenic avian influenza in Thailand and Viet Nam, and are probably behind outbreak persistence in other
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After more than 20 years of dedicated efforts that included application of the Sterile Insect Technique (SIT) as part of an integrated approach, the Animal and Plant Health Service (SENASA) of Peru has announced the
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Since some Ugandan farmers joined the Farmer Field School in 2006, not only did they eliminate from their fields the Banana Bacterial Wilt disease that threatened their livelihoods, but their life has changed for better.
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Virus under control in West Bengal – intensive surveillance required
India is to be commended for its successful efforts to control the recent worst-ever outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza in the state of West Bengal, FAO said today. The agency warned, however, that intensive
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FAO publishes planning guide for nutrition education in primary schools
Educating school children in healthy nutrition is one of the most effective strategies for overcoming malnutrition and chronic diet-related diseases but has been neglected far too long, FAO said today.
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The Nigde-Nevsehir Region in Turkey accounts for more than 1/3 of Turkey’s potato production (1.2 million tons). Sprinkler and basin irrigation systems have been used for potato growing in the past in this light-textured soil
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