Jamaica moves to control citrus greening
The ministry has announced that it will be providing training into the shoot tip grating technique with the assistance of the Food and Agriculture Organisation Technical Cooperation Programme. It will be facilitated by Dr. Olga Mas Camacho, a shoot tip grafting consultant from Cuba.
Shoot tip grafting is a laboratory process which has been proven worldwide to be a significant method for obtaining pathogen-free citrus.
Dr. Camacho is expected to shoot tip graft seven local varieties and if that is successful, those will be used as the mother plants to supply budwood to the local citrus industry.
Meanwhile plants under protected cover will be to tested to ensure their disease free status and budwood will be provided to cover the industry until the shoot gratings are ready in 2 or 3 years time.
Source: www.go-jamaica.com
