Official contact points of the International Plant Protection Convention (IPPC) and agricultural experts from 14 Caribbean countries will meet for a regional workshop in St Phillip, Antigua from 10 to 12 September 2019. 

Actualmente, el hongo Fusarium R4T afecta las plantaciones de banano de siete fincas de La Guajira. Por ello, el Instituto Colombiano Agropecuario (ICA) firmó acuerdos con las asociaciones Augura y Asbama, que pretenden evitar la propagación de la enfermedad hacia [...]

Fusarium Tropical Race 4 (TR4) has arrived in Latin America. It is a major threat to banana producers, many of them are smallholder farmers. There is no viable, fully effective treatment of soil or plants to control or cure Fusarium [...]

The World Banana Forum and FAO are establishing the TR4 Global Network (TR4GN), a leading platform for exchange and collaboration that aims at becoming a knowledge hub for awareness and prevention of the spread of the disease.TR4GN supports tools, information [...]

Autoridades y productores de banano aplican ejercicios y protocolos en los campos, ante la amenaza de la enfermedad Fusarium R4T que también es conocido como el mal de Panamá y que fue confirmado un brote en Colombia a principio de [...]

Over the last few weeks, the possible disappearance of the Cavendish banana has been making headlines around the globe, both in producer and consumer countries; since the first outbreak of the Fusarium Tropical Race 4 has been made public in [...]

TR4 screening trials are in full swing in the NT, with new trials established at Coastal Plains Research Farm over the past 10 months.

Since the initial detection of TR4 in the Tully Valley in March 2015, alerting growers and the community in general of any new farms with TR4 has been a priority of Biosecurity Queensland (BQ) and the ABGC. As most would know, there [...]

Gavin MacKay, who manages MacKay’s Bolinda Estate (first detected with TR4 in July 2017) with his cousin Stephen MacKay, says that having the disease on their Tully Valley property meant they’d paid much closer attention to how they did things [...]

The Banana Board is only too aware of the far-reaching impact of the soil-borne pathogen, and has therefore ramped up its public relations and awareness activities to alert farmers and other stakeholders.