COCOANUTS IN FIJI
COMBATING OF DISEASES. The measures taken to combat the spread of certain diseases affecting cocoanut trees in Fiji daring the past three years were briefly reviewed by Air H. W. Sim monels, Government entomologist in Fiji. The chief disease, he said, was a scale, Aspidotus destructor, which had practically destroyed the yield of cocoanute in certain districts. Two missions were undertaken to Tahiti, where the disease had come under natural control, and as a result of these investigations two parasites were successfully transported, and probably also a fungus. The three of these, working together, brought about a Test improvement in the affected area. On one estate, where the yield had fallen to perhaps six nuts a tree, heads of forty and fifty nuts were quite common again.
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New Zealand Times, Volume L, Issue 11422, 19 January 1923, Page 6
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