The Costa Rican government and producers signed an agreement that establishes that any government agency may request resources to carry out national and international activities to prevent or combat any pest that affects banana crops.
After the presence of the pest Fusarium R4T in Colombia was confirmed, in Costa Rica the producers' guild asked the authorities to decree a national state of emergency to prevent the entry of the disease into the country.
Costa Rica has updated the mandatory phytosanitary measures for imports, while in Guatemala protocols are being implemented in the fields where the fruit is harvested, because of the threat of Fusarium R4T disease.
Venezuelan Italian entrepreneurs have started edible mushroom production in a controlled environment in La Chorrera.
The company Agricola La Lomita has an area of two acres where it has established a cultivation area of 1,600 m², in a controlled environment.
The country consumes about 176 tons of mushrooms per year, mostly imported from Colombia, making it a potential market for the company, says Walter Cantore, president of Agricola La Lomita.
Leaf accelerators, lemon oil, and mixtures of juices from various plants, are being used successfully against the fungus Hemileia vastatrix.
Regional coffee producers have announced that they have found organic remedies to combat rust.
Mario René Velásquez, a medium sized producer from Amatitlán and owner of five thousand coffee plantations, in search of a solution to the problem, decided to try calcium sulfo (a mixture of lime, water and sulfur boiled to produce a brick red liquid), which he had used in the treatment of fungus in fruit trees.
The Ministry of Agriculture has announced the purchase of fungicides to be delivered to 60,000 Guatemalan coffee growers, in order to combat rust.
The Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Food in Guatemala (MAGA), will hold a competition for the acquisition of fungicides, with which it hopes to benefit some 60,000 coffee producers, out of the 90,000 that there are in the country, said Elmer Lopez representative from the Ministry.
A mutant strain of the fungus is affecting 40% of trees in this country and is raising concerns due to its spread potential.
This aggressive variety of rust attacks the leaves of plants and reduces their productivity, and it finds better conditions in low-altitude sites, where it is warmer and there is more moisture.
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