From Miami, the National Banana Corporation of Costa Rica (Corbana) asked all the client that carry out banana activity in Latin America unite to fight a harmful fungus located in Colombia and prevent it from spreading in the region.
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El President of Corbana, Eduardo Gomez, commented when he opened the Fusarium Foc R4T workshop"We have reason enough to be worried and busy with this enemy, let us remember that the banana and the banana feed millions of people in the world, besides generate thousands of jobs, currencies and development for the producing countries", highlighted elcomercio.com.
President of Corbana, Eduardo Gomez
Because the Colombian government reported that it had detected the fungus Fusarium Foc R4T on four farms Guajira, Corbana decided to hold a workshop with specialists from different banana producing countries around the world to create strategies and prevent this plague from spreading.
It should be noted that it is the first time that the Fusarium Foc R4T arrives in America, before it had not happened because the banana companies take their precautionary measures, one of them is not to hold meetings in nations where there are banana crops, that was the reason why the meeting was held in Miami.
For his part, the manager of Corbana, Jorge Sauma, asserted, "The Fusarium is a common enemy, we can only defeat it with the effort of all together, that is, with a common alliance." He also suggested that it should organizing a summit of banana producing countries in Latin America, as was done previously.
Likewise, Saume asked International organizations such as the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the Common Fund for Commodities (CFC), the World Banana Forum, the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA), Ministries of Agriculture of the countries and the companies supplying inputs, which unite to find a solution to the problem of the fungus and increase the funds directed to researching this disease.
El Fusarium Foc R4T It is one of the most terrible diseases that can affect bananas and plantains, since it wilts them and they cannot be eaten.
Action of the Fusarium Foc R4T
have been detected pathogen outbreaks in Colombia, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, China, North Australia, India, Pakistan, Jordan, Israel, Lebanon and Mozambique, in those nations it has managed to destroy some 100 hectares of banana crops.
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