The fight against the Black Sigatoka, a fungus attacking Tabasco's plantaine plantations (Mexico), costs the producers an average of 2 million pesos a week, about 100 million pesos a year, which is why the Technology Transfer Laboratory of Biotech Crops, will focus on reducing these costs.
That cost, confirmed the president of the Produce Fundation, Adrian Prats Leal, represents 35 percent of the production costs of the banana plantations. The disease is within control standards.
About 17,000 hectares of plantaine are planted In Tabasco; in Teapa, Tacotalpa, Centro, Jalapa and Cunduacán. However some 2,000 hectares have been attacked by this aggressive fungus.
Source: Tabscohoy.com
