Bananageddon?
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May 16, 2014 12:13 am
Fungus kills seven million plants in Mozambique
Scientists have met in South Africa to come up with a pan of containing an outbreak of Panama Disease in Mozambique
A report suggests that a 3,600acre plantation in Mozambique is infested.
It is thought that workers from the Philippines could have carried the disease to Mozambique.
Bananas generate US$8billion (S$10 billion) and millions of people rely on them as their main source of calories.
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