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Protecting Wheat Crops, Helping Ensure Afghan Food Security

June 01, 2011 Karoline Scott, Foreign Agricultural Service Public Affairs

In Afghanistan, wheat is not only a diet staple but is also the country’s most widely grown crop. When an invasive fungus known as Ug99 threatened to damage and destroy Afghan wheat, the USDA joined forces with U.S. Central Command and U.S. Forces-Afghanistan to help stop it. Together in late 2010...

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