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2008-11-26 | permalink
FAO and EU launch non-GE virusfree cassava at 330,000 African smallholders
After years of massive crop losses caused by a devastating virus, farmers are harvesting healthy cassava - one of Africa’s principal foodstuffs - throughout the Great Lakes region, FAO announced today, hailing the achievement as a milestone in its ever stronger partnership with the European Union. By the last planting season, virus-free cassava planting material had been distributed to some 330 000 smallholders in countries struck by the virus - Burundi, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda and Uganda. The improved crop now benefits a total of some 1.65 million people.
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2008-11-26 | permalink
FAO and EU launch non-GE virusfree cassava at 330,000 African smallholders
After years of massive crop losses caused by a devastating virus, farmers are harvesting healthy cassava - one of Africa’s principal foodstuffs - throughout the Great Lakes region, FAO announced today, hailing the achievement as a milestone in its ever stronger partnership with the European Union. By the last planting season, virus-free cassava planting material had been distributed to some 330 000 smallholders in countries struck by the virus - Burundi, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda and Uganda. The improved crop now benefits a total of some 1.65 million people.
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