Other Plant Disease — Worldwide/Unknown
After losing some 70 percent of its coconut palms due to a disease that decimated thousands of plants island-wide, the St Kitts Department of Agriculture has acquired over 3000 plants and will soon begin a replanting programme.
“We have been on the losing end of a battle with the ‘Coconut Palm Complex’ — a complex because an affected tree may be infected by the red palm mite, lethal yellowing, and bud rot disease [all at one time]. More than 70 percent of the coconut stock was lost to this
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