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03/08/2019
Stakeholders of the banana industry, government agencies, agricultural partner organizations and the public are hereby informed of a notification of a suspected detection of Fusarium wilt of bananas in La Guajira Province in Colombia.
01/08/2019
Panama TR4 remains contained to three Tully Valley farms four-and-a half years on from the initial detection. However, the disease has spread uphill and up-river within the infested farms, with nearly 60 plants confirmed positive since March 2015 (nearly 60 per cent [...]
01/08/2019
Ѕtаkеhоldеrѕ оf thе bаnаnа іnduѕtrу, gоvеrnmеnt аgеnсіеѕ, аgrісulturаl раrtnеr оrgаnіzаtіоnѕ аnd thе рublіс аrе іnfоrmеd оf а ѕuѕресtеd dеtесtіоn оf Fuѕаrіum wіlt оf bаnаnаѕ іn Lа Guајіrа Рrоvіnсе іn Соlоmbіа.
01/08/2019
The suspected entry of a virulent banana disease into Latin America has the potential to have a "drastic" effect on the region's exports over the next decade, according to the CEO of U.S based produce company Del Monte.
En La Guajira se instaló Puesto de Mando Unificado Regional para proteger las plantaciones de banano
30/07/2019
Con el fin de avanzar en el plan de contingencia por sospecha de la presencia de la marchitez en plantas de banano en La Guajira, la gerente general del ICA, Deyanira Barrero León, instaló el Puesto de Mando Unificado Regional, [...]
23/07/2019
Earlier this month, banana growers in Latin America got some worrying news. Officials in Colombia said four plantations had been quarantined after the possible appearance of a banana fungus that has already caused devastating losses in Asia. Fusarium wilt tropical race 4 [...]
22/07/2019
El Ministerio de Agricultura y Ganadería (MAG), a través de la Agencia de Regulación Fito y Zoosanitario (Agrocalidad), recibe a la delegación del Organismo Internacional Regional de Sanidad Agropecuaria (OIRSA) para trabajar en la prevención del ingreso del hongo Fusarium oxysporum f. [...]
22/07/2019
In a long-feared development, an extremely damaging disease of bananas has apparently reached Latin America. Late last week, the Colombian Agricultural Institute in Bogotá officially acknowledged that four plantations in northern Colombia have been quarantined because of suspected infection with [...]
20/07/2019
El país sudamericano detecta un posible brote en la frontera con Venezuela, y Panamá y El Salvador decretan la alerta sanitaria ante posibles afectaciones.
19/07/2019
El Gobierno de Colombia reforzó las medidas para controlar la presencia de un hongo que afecta unas 150 hectáreas de plantaciones de banano del norte del país, informaron este viernes fuentes oficiales.
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