Wheat Crop Disease

Deadly Wheat Disease Enters India Through Porous Bangladesh Border

It's not just smuggling - if currency and cattle - that plagues the porous India-Bangladesh border in West Bengal. In Murshidabad and Nadia districts, a deadly fungal infection that affects wheat and is capable of wipe out the entire harvest of a nation, has entered India. Last year, the disease had badly affected Bangladesh and now in West Bengal,...