Potato growers in Thakurgaon and Panchagarh are struggling to protect their crops as cold weather and dense fog have ...

A hybrid potato that is resistant to the crop-destroying fungus known as blight is being trailed as a potential saviour of some of the country's best-known varieties of spud. The so-called ...

Shay Phelan concluded: “Potato growers can only develop effective blight control programmes if they know the strains of the ...

Late blight devastates tomato and potato crops, especially in cool ... Some fungal tree diseases are hard to control or eradicate, and they can quickly kill crops, damage trees, and eliminate ...

However, the famine worsened when the potato harvest failed again in 1846 due to the potato blight. The British government did try and help a little. In 1846, Prime Minister Robert Peel ordered £ ...