Italy: Xylella fastidiosa in Portugal also extends to peach and cherry

Published 2023년 2월 5일

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Xylella fastidiosa, a bacterial disease, has been detected in 75 plant species in Portugal, including olives, citrus fruits, vine, peach, and cherry, and has spread rapidly in three municipalities in the Porto area. The Valencian association of farmers is concerned about the disease's impact on Spanish and European agriculture and urges administrations to take measures to control its spread. Reports also express concern about the vector that transmits Huanglangbing, already present in the Algarve area and approaching citrus groves in Huelva, and in Sicily, where it could destroy hundreds of thousands of hectares of oranges and lemons. Research is being done on resistant varieties, defensive substances, and agro-ecological systems to combat the disease.

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Xylella fastidiosa continues to strike. After the olive trees and the first cases on citrus fruits in Portugal - which also frightened Sicilian citrus growers already on alert after Tristeza - the Portuguese agriculture ministry now points out that the symptoms of this bacterium have been detected on a total of 75 plant species, including also vine, peach and cherry. According to data updated last December, the disease has spread rapidly in three municipalities in the Porto area, suggesting nothing good. In the light of these revelations, reports the magazine Revistas Mercados, the Valencian association of farmers (Ava-Asaja) expresses its great concern about the quantitative and qualitative leap in the expansion of Xylella fastidiosa in the neighboring country, because it represents a risk not only for Spanish agriculture but also for European agriculture. Therefore, the organization urges the administrations of Portugal and Spain to take all control measures in order to stop the ...

Source: Italiafruit