Showing posts with label Crop Pest and Pathogen. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Crop Pest and Pathogen. Show all posts

Wednesday, 12 February 2014

India Only Next to USA in Terms of Number of Crop Pests and Pathogens



Plant Scientists from UK have studied the economic and physical determinants of the global distribution of crop pests and pathogens. The full report has been published online in New Phytologist on Tuesday (11th February 2014) As a part of their study they observed the pest and pathogen numbers per country, with the largest numbers reported by the USA (1200), India (1063), China (1012), France (999) and Japan (973).