Corn Necrosis Disease Reported to Have Spread to Uganda
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Maize lethal necrosis, a corn disease first found in Kenya in 2011, has spread to Uganda in a possible threat to the country’s food security, plant-disease researcher CABI said.
The disease, which is caused by a double infection of the maize chlorotic mottle virus and the sugarcane mosaic virus, has been reported in eastern Uganda, CABI wrote on its website today, citing the country’s agriculture ministry.