Tomato wilt still worry
PA Wellington Vegetable and produce growers want a property in Whangarei put in total quarantine until a tomato disease discovered there has been eradicated. In a letter to the Minister of Agriculture (Mr Maclntyre), the Vegetable and Produce Growers’ Federation asked for the quarantine, and for a prohibition on tomatoes from the property of Mr M. J.' Wordsworth.
The federation-also wants the Government to cover the costs of- about $lOO,OOO that the affected grower has incurred. “All authorities have acknowledged there is a risk of this particular strain of bacterial wilt spreading,” it said. The disease was discovered on Mr Wordsworth’s property in late July, and since then the federation has said that measures being taken by the Ministry of Agriculture are inadequate. If the disease spread throughout the glasshouse industry in New Zealand, it would mean the end of more than S6OM of equipment.
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