Dar es Salaam, April 2 -- TANZANIA: MAIZE grain seeds from Tanzania are safe and do not pose a risk of transmitting viruses causing Maize Lethal Necrosis Disease (MLND), it has been said.

This was revealed by the Tanzania Plant Health Pesticides Authoritys (TPHPA) Director General Professor Joseph Ndunguru in a statement released recently after conducting the survey.

Highlighting the motive for conducting the survey, Prof Ndunguru said that following the first report of the occurrence of MLND in the country, the Ministry of Agriculture through the TPHPA conducted monitoring surveys from 2016 to 2021 and recently in 2023 to establish the areas affected by the disease.

He said also the survey identified the viruses causing the disease in...