Other Plant Disease — Worldwide/Unknown
The outbreak of a chickpea disease is threatening new crops throughout Victoria and South Australia. Industry organisation Pulses Australia is receiving a growing number of reports of ascochyta blight in Victoria’s Wimmera and Mallee and South Australia’s Yorke Peninsula.
Ascochyta blight causes plants to wither and die. An outbreak in 1998 wiped out the Wimmera and more than 100 000 hectares [about 247 000 acres] of chickpea crops.
Pulses Australia’s Mary Raynes says it’s crucial
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