Other Plant Disease — Worldwide/Unknown
The threat of hop stunt viroid (HSVd) infecting the UK crop is “a very serious issue”, according to the head of the British Hop Association.
[A] hop grower said: “We have requested that plant health passports and phytosanitary certificates are changed to ensure that plant material coming here is free of HSVd.”
Defra [Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs] is carrying out a rapid pest-risk analysis to establish the nature and severity of the threat before introducing control
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