The Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute (AFBI) and the College of Agriculture, Food and Rural Enterprise (CAFRE), Greenmount Campus, have issued the first potato blight warning for 2015.
![Iain Johnston, CAFRE Crops Adviser, and Gillian Young, Plant Pathologist, Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute (AFBI), at Newforge Lane, Belfast. Iain Johnston, CAFRE Crops Adviser, and Gillian Young, Plant Pathologist, Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute (AFBI), at Newforge Lane, Belfast.](https://www.afbini.gov.uk/sites/afbini.gov.uk/files/styles/inline/public/images/%5Bcurrent-domain%3Amachine-name%5D/news/BW15.16.002-1.jpg?itok=sIibyvCU×tamp=1452530933)
Full Infection Periods were recorded between 8th and 14th July at sites across Northern Ireland. Growers are advised to protect all crops with approved fungicides.
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