Frost And Flood Damage Tobacco
(New Zealand Press Association)
WELLINGTON, May 29
About 200 growers have submitted compensation claims for loss of tobacco leaf this year, the Tobacco Board chairman (Mr H. L. Wise) said today.
Losses were assessed at 648,0001 b as a result of frost on April 5 and 6, and at 26,0001 b caused by flood damage in January and February.
This year’s tobacco loss is the most severe since 1949 and 1950, Mr Wise said, when losses amounted to 616,0001 b and 660,0001 b respectively.
But losses this season would not seriously affect over-all production of tobacco, due to substantial increase of acreage and production.
The board would launch a programme to control verticillium wilt, a disease which has become a major problem in the tobacco industry, said Mr Wise. Land affected with the disease would be treated and growers subsidised to 40 per cent of the cost. The maximum cost of treatment is reported to be £lOO an acre.
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Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30454, 30 May 1964, Page 3
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