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PRO/PL> Frosty pod rot, cocoa – Jamaica: spread
Other Plant Disease -- JamaicaTrading, transportation, and processing of cocoa pods and other planting material across parish borders has been suspended with immediate effect, an emergency strategy aimed at curtailing the spread of the deadly frosty pod disease.Clarendon is the worst-affected parish, the crop is almost entirely infected. St Mary is also badly affected, with Portland and St Thomas the only places where the disease has not yet been detected. The fungus now threatens to wipe out cocoa Read more [...]
