They suggest investment against the sigatoka

posted on: Dec 2 2011 7:9 by RDugey. Viewed 17 times.

The Executive Director of the organic bananas Northwest line cooperative (Banelino), Marike de Peña, stated that Dominican Republic has to invest more and call for more innovative solutions for the control of pests and diseases that affect the production of bananas "this country must invest more in organic farming to maintain first place in the export of bananas"", because Peru is reaching", said De Peña turn that you we need to do more research on the subject professional.

In 2010 Dominican Republic had exports of organic bananas for an amount of $80.8 million.

De Peña said that the black Sigatoka disease is a disease that will always be present. "What happens is that this country is the first country in organic bananas, the second is Peru, but there does not exist the sigatoka." Or are the only country that really trafficking of living with the disease organically.

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Marike de Peña, Executive Director of cooperative bananas ecological.