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El Niño threatens 500,000 hectares in Manabí; cocoa, banana crops at risk
El UniversoLO·EC·about 23 hours ago
On the first anniversary of detecting Fusarium Race 4 in Ecuador, INIAP reports promising resistant clones and opens a technical office in Machala to support containment. The development signals progress in managing a banana disease that threatens global supply, but the effectiveness of the clones remains unproven in field conditions.