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24/03/2022
Join the IPPC Workshop Series: Fusarium TR4: Diagnostic, Surveillance, Inspection and Simulation Exercises which will be held on Thursday, 24 March 2022, Tuesday, 19 April 2022 and Tuesday, 10 May 2022, 11:00 -13:30 (CET) Introduction and spread of this pest should be contained and [...]
30/12/2021
WBF TR4 Global Network - Webinar Series TR4-Resistant Banana Varieties: From Selection to Market Demand19 and 20 January 2022 | 15:30 -18:00 CEST  Video Recordings of the Event:1st Day | 2nd Day         Report of the Event:English | Spanish The webinars, co-organized by the WBF and FAO [...]
27/07/2021
Theme The FAO conference will provide an update on the current situation of fusarium wilt of musaceae, tropical race 4. The event will cover several topics such the estimation of TR4 impact, biosecurity measures, surveillance, management and impact estimation methodologies. The [...]
06/07/2021
The World Banana Forum and the FAO Regional Office of Latin America and the Caribbean invite you to join us for a Technical Webinar on: Addressing the Global Knowledge gap on Diagnostic tools, Protocols and their applications for Fusarium Wilt [...]
21/05/2021
TR4 Global Network (TR4GN) materials published and available for download! Concrete solutions on how to effectively combat Fusarium TR4 - a destructive transboundary pest that devastates banana and plantain crops - are now available at your fingertips. Through the TR4GN initiative, the World [...]
03/05/2021
The General Secretariat of the Andean Community (CAN), in an expanded meeting of the Andean Technical Committee for Agricultural Health - COTASA, with specialized regional and international organizations, agreed to articulate regional action against Fusarium Raza Tropical 4, which was [...]
27/04/2021
The Ministers of Agriculture of the Andean Community (Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru) met in order to discuss joint actions to prevent and control the spread of the Fusarium R4T outbreak that recently appeared in an organic banana plot in [...]
23/04/2021
On April 12, the Peruvian National Service of Agricultural Safety (SENASA) has officially confirmed the presence of Fusarium Tropical Race 4 (TR4) in a 0.5-hectare farm at Querecotillo district of Sullana province in the Piura department of Peru. Subsequently, the [...]
12/04/2021
SENASA's Plant Health Diagnosis Center Unit has confirmed a POSITIVE Result for the PCR and Sequencing tests for Fusarium TR4 in Piura region.
09/03/2021
On 9 March, COLEACP and the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) held a webinar with the FAO-led World Banana Forum: “Banana fusarium wilt TR4 – an overview of distribution and impact, and the essential biosecurity measures needed for [...]

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