An invasive alien weed, silverleaf nightshade, is threatening cotton and wheat crops in Syria and Iraq and could spread to Lebanon and Jordan, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said on Tuesday.
More than 60 percent of the farmland in Syria, growing mainly cotton and wheat, has been infested with the weed, originally from the American tropics, which sucks nutrients from
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[1] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/news/alien-weed-hits-cotton-wheat-syria-iraq-fao
[2] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/svetlana-kovalyova
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/newspaper/planet-ark-australia
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/agriculture
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/cotton
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/wheat
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/syria
[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/iraq
[9] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/fao
[10] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/weeds
[11] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/jordan
