Plant Diseases - A Global Challenge to Food Security
Shaik Reshma
Dept. of Plant Pathology, College of Agriculture, Rajendranagar, Professor Jayashankar Telangana State Agricultural University, Hyderabad, Telangana (500 030), India
Shaik Ameer Basha*
Dept. of Plant Pathology, College of Agriculture, Rajendranagar, Professor Jayashankar Telangana State Agricultural University, Hyderabad, Telangana (500 030), India
Gali Uma Devi
Dept. of Plant Pathology, College of Agriculture, Rajendranagar, Professor Jayashankar Telangana State Agricultural University, Hyderabad, Telangana (500 030), India
Venuturla Bharathi
Dept. of Plant Pathology, College of Agriculture, Rajendranagar, Professor Jayashankar Telangana State Agricultural University, Hyderabad, Telangana (500 030), India
DOI: NIL
Keywords: Agriculture, Food Security, Plant Diseases, Quarantine
Abstract
Plant disease outbreaks have caused massive food shortages and famines over the years. It poses a major threat to food security because they can damage crops, thus reducing the availability and access to food, increasing the cost of food. Each year an estimated 10-16 percent of global harvest is lost to plant diseases. Most of the crops are subjected to diseases both in the field and post-harvest by a number of major groups of pathogens. New plant diseases potentially threaten staple crops around the world giving rise to broad scale starvation in many parts of the globe. Additionally, disasters and transboundary diseases pose an enormous threat to food safety and security. Therefore, plant protection in general and the protection of crops against plant diseases in particular, have an obvious role to play in meeting the growing demand for food quality and quantity.
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