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The (possible) end of nanas - NorthernRaider - 24 January 2016
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-35131751
Try to imagine if some similar blight took out rice or spuds?
RE: The (possible) end of nanas - bigpaul - 24 January 2016
never heard of the potato famine??
RE: The (possible) end of nanas - Barneyboy - 24 January 2016
The death of grass .baby
RE: The (possible) end of nanas - Ranger - 25 January 2016
Unfortunately this is what happens when you put all your eggs into one basket. As for the potato blight, I'm sure I can recall a program from a few years ago (may have been a Countryfile or something similar) where they did a report about a couple running a farm in Northumberland who grow all different cultivars of seed potatos on their hill farm because the blight cannot survive above a certain elevation above sea level. This farm is then acting as a reservoir of healthy plants in case there is another large scale blight problem.