Friday, 3 March 2017

PRO/PL> Quick & slow wilts, black pepper - Viet Nam: (DO) susp

Other Plant Disease -- Vietnam
The farmers in Dak Nong Province will have to bear huge losses as thousands of pepper trees suddenly died just before they were harvested. Farmers have to destroy most of the trees because of disease.
A farmer [said] he noticed the disease 2 months ago as the leaves turned yellow and fell down. Later, he noticed that the roots were rotten before the tree died one month later. "2 to 3 trees die each day. We tried to save them but it spreads really fast." [Other farmers] said a group of trees

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