Other Plant Disease — Philippines
The dreaded Panama disease may have already ravaged more than a quarter of all the banana plantations in Mindanao. Areas infected may have doubled from 15 000 hectares identified by the Department of Agriculture (DA) in 2015, said Victor S Mercado Jr, Marsman-Drysdale Agribusiness Group. The spread was “expected” due to the lack of appropriate biosafety measures in small plantations [that] account for almost half of the total 88 667 hectares planted with the Cavendish variety. Mercado also
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