THE SWEET GOLDEN APPLE INDUSTRY is under threat in Barbados.
It’s as a result of a disease and a pest that were banding together to kill large, once beautiful and bountiful golden apple trees.
This has been revealed by senior agricultural officer and head of the entomology section of the Ministry of Agriculture Ian Gibbs, who said the issue came to his attention a few months ago.
He told the SATURDAY SUN that trees in the south of the island – in St Philip and in Christ Church – were being attacked first by a fungus and then by a beetle.
“It appears that the golden apple one is a case where there are two organisms coming together to cause the demise of these trees,” he explained.
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