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Santo Domingo.– Dominican authorities have quarantined citric fruit plantations in two municipalities in Puerto Plata Province, due to their infection with diaphorina citri bacteria, which causes the Huanglongbing disease.

The Agriculture Ministry has allocated $143,000 to fight the disease and installed control barriers to limit access to the affected areas in Luperon and Imbert municipalities. As additional measure, there is a nationwide ban on the transfer of citrus propagation material.

Although citrus fruits are not a key income source, a plague is bad news due to the damage it may inflict on plantations and its potential airborne spread throughout the Caribbean.

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9 comment(s)
Written by: derek, 6 Dec 2008 7:21 AM
From: Dominican Republic
I googled this disease. The good news is that it is not harmful to humans. The bad news is that is ruins the fruit, then kills any citrus tree.
Written by: gouletcolonial This user is banned, 6 Dec 2008 10:03 AM
From: Cuba, it is a secret the censors are looking for me
good bye fresh squeezed
Written by: Quisqueyanosoy, 6 Dec 2008 1:13 PM
From: United States
i wonder how this plague first hit our fruits
Written by: gouletcolonial This user is banned, 6 Dec 2008 1:16 PM
From: Cuba, it is a secret the censors are looking for me
maybe it was an evil yanqui conspiracy to keep you down......
Written by: Quisqueyanosoy, 6 Dec 2008 2:26 PM
From: United States
maybe
Written by: roosevelt, 6 Dec 2008 7:08 PM
From: Dominican Republic
I think its early to fight against the pest or disease, if quarantine dept. is starting with time we hope good news quickly
Written by: jonbonz, 7 Dec 2008 12:18 AM
From: Dominican Republic, santo domingo part time afghanistan the rest
the entire armed forces and Drug angency cant control the movement of drugs how can 700 or so under employed over paid agriculture unprofessionals stop the movemeny ofg citrus?
Written by: roosevelt, 7 Dec 2008 12:43 AM
From: Dominican Republic
jonbonz, if you were an agronomist you would think that are diferent situations , that never could be compare, because drug dealers think about money and how to buy authorities, but pest dont.
It s a tecnical solution and with an internal quarantine could be errradicated .
Written by: jonbonz, 7 Dec 2008 1:22 AM
From: Dominican Republic, santo domingo part time afghanistan the rest
Lets say I am small time farmer in the quarantine zone. My cousin has a calmodo in the capitol. I need the 5mil I can get off my fruit. I put my fruit on the back of my camionetta and I sell said fruit in the capitol in violation of the quarantine. If the governemnt cant stop the harvest of gravel by men with shovels then how are they going to stop the movement of citrus. If the cant stop garlic smuggling. If they cant stop car part smuggling. Theft of electricity and so forth.
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