Join us for the upcoming webinar on TR4-Resistant Banana Varieties which will be held on Tuesday, 17 May 15:30-18:00 CEST. This webinar is part of a series of capacity building and awareness raising events organized by the World Banana Forum and its [...]

Join the IPPC Workshop Series: Fusarium TR4: Diagnostic, Surveillance, Inspection and Simulation Exercises which will be held on Thursday, 24 March 2022, Tuesday, 19 April 2022 and Tuesday, 10 May 2022, 11:00 -13:30 (CET) Introduction and spread of this pest should be contained and [...]

WBF TR4 Global Network - Webinar Series TR4-Resistant Banana Varieties: From Selection to Market Demand19 and 20 January 2022 | 15:30 -18:00 CEST  Video Recordings of the Event:1st Day | 2nd Day         Report of the Event:English | Spanish The webinars, co-organized by the WBF and FAO [...]

Theme The FAO conference will provide an update on the current situation of fusarium wilt of musaceae, tropical race 4. The event will cover several topics such the estimation of TR4 impact, biosecurity measures, surveillance, management and impact estimation methodologies. The [...]

The World Banana Forum and the FAO Regional Office of Latin America and the Caribbean invite you to join us for a Technical Webinar on: Addressing the Global Knowledge gap on Diagnostic tools, Protocols and their applications for Fusarium Wilt [...]

TR4 Global Network (TR4GN) materials published and available for download! Concrete solutions on how to effectively combat Fusarium TR4 - a destructive transboundary pest that devastates banana and plantain crops - are now available at your fingertips. Through the TR4GN initiative, the World [...]

The General Secretariat of the Andean Community (CAN), in an expanded meeting of the Andean Technical Committee for Agricultural Health - COTASA, with specialized regional and international organizations, agreed to articulate regional action against Fusarium Raza Tropical 4, which was [...]

The Ministers of Agriculture of the Andean Community (Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru) met in order to discuss joint actions to prevent and control the spread of the Fusarium R4T outbreak that recently appeared in an organic banana plot in [...]

On April 12, the Peruvian National Service of Agricultural Safety (SENASA) has officially confirmed the presence of Fusarium Tropical Race 4 (TR4) in a 0.5-hectare farm at Querecotillo district of Sullana province in the Piura department of Peru. Subsequently, the [...]

SENASA's Plant Health Diagnosis Center Unit has confirmed a POSITIVE Result for the PCR and Sequencing tests for Fusarium TR4 in Piura region.