Amid rising hunger, Venezuela plantain crops threatened by fungus - agronomists

CARACAS - Venezuela’s banana and plantain crops face potential infestation of a fungus already effecting neighboring Colombia, an agronomists association said on Wednesday, potentially devastating one of Venezuela’s main foods amid rising hunger.

A hyperinflationary economic collapse has left millions of the OPEC member’s citizens unable to obtain enough calories and has pushed diets toward starchy staples that grow readily in its tropical climate. The fungus causes a malady popularly known as Panama disease and can remain in the soil for up to 30 years by attacking the roots of plants.

Venezuela has a combined total of around 70,000 hectares of bananas and plantains under plantation, Lopez said, adding that the economic crisis has left the country without personnel to address the problem.The flow of people and food between Venezuela and Colombia creates a significant possibility that the fungus could reach Venezuela, said Edison Arciniega of food-security focused non-profit Citizenship in Action.

Typical Neoliberal, banker-controlled media is obsessed with calamities & sanctions in Venezuela, meanwhile they go silent about a real dictatorship-in-the-works: Macron's France. GiletsJaunes MacronDemission MacronResign

CIA sprayed it!

The only thing socialism doesn't have a shortage of is diseases.

That’s socialism everybody gets equally, except if you equally important government bureaucrat

Não tem dinheiro para usar defensivos agrícolas?

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