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UN agency boosts efforts to detect and prevent spread of damaging wheat rusts

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UN News Centre

Publication Date
2016-04-14

15 April 2016 – The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said today it is expanding a partnership to inhibit the ongoing spread of wheat rusts, a group of fungal plant diseases that block the production of the staple grain and other crops, which is raising concern in Central Asia and the Middle East.

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