Other Plant Disease -- Antigua & Barbuda
To rebound from the impact of lethal yellowing disease [LY], the Antigua and Barbuda government has put plans in motion to import 100 000 coconut seeds from Costa Rica. The Plant Protection Unit [PPU] assures that they have been thoroughly vetted to prevent a recurrence of the devastation over the past years. LY, first discovered on the island in 2012 [ProMED post https://bit.ly/3cTSItV], has decimated the coconut population. During the worst of the outbreak,
Read more about it at HealthMap Global Disease Alerts via http://healthmap.org/ln.php?8456768&promed&0
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