Beetle, Fungus Take Bite Out of Russian Potato Crop; Small, Traditional Farmers of 'Second Bread' Resist Push to Use Pesticides, Genetically Altered Seeds

From: The Washington Post | Date: October 6, 2002| Author: | Copyright information

Maria Patrikeyeva gingerly picks a black-and-yellow striped beetle off a potato plant, carries the bug to the edge of the field and stomps on it.

The Colorado beetle has no friends in Russia, where its hefty appetite for potato leaves is threatening to decimate one of the country's most important food staples.

The growing damage inflicted by the fingernail-sized beetle and the late blight fungus -- both unwittingly imported with humanitarian food aid during Soviet times -- has sparked fears of an epidemic to rival the Irish potato blight in the mid-1800s, which caused a famine that killed 1 ...

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