#riceblast — Public Fediverse posts
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"the five most important calorie crops — #rice, #wheat, #maize (corn), #soya beans and #potatoes — can be affected by #RiceBlast fungus, wheat stem rust, corn smut, soybean rust and potato late blight disease [...], respectively.
And losses from these fungi equate to enough food to provide some 600 million to 4,000 million #people with 2,000 #calories every day for one year.
Such losses are likely to increase in a warming world" [5]