Deadly wilt disease causes death of 100 hectares of acacia, what do forestry experts say?
Published Jul 23, 2020
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Reporter DAN VIET interviewed Prof. Dr. Pham Van Dien, Deputy Director General of the General Department of Forestry (MARD) on the risk of wilting in acacia as well as the death of acacia plantations due to prolonged hot and dry weather in many localities. Phuong. How do you assess the risk of acacia tree wilt disease in recent years? In the world and in Vietnam, acacia tree wilt is caused by Ceratocystis spp. This is a dangerous disease with a high risk of outbreaks.
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If an outbreak of an epidemic would cause great damage to production. However, the disease is not yet clear and it is difficult for an outbreak to occur on a large scale in Vietnam. This disease has caused about 1 million hectares of acacia forest in Indonesia and several hundred thousand hectares of acacia forest in Malaysia between 2010 and 2017. In these countries, the disease of wilting acacia is very serious, causing great damage. People have to turn to planting eucalyptus, but eucalyptus has also become ill. In our country, this disease was detected in 2008. In 2015, the disease appeared in 17 provinces, with 2000 ha of acacia plantation (A. mangium, A. auriculiformis, acacia crescent, hybrid acacia) infected with billions of The percentage of infected trees in the plot is less than 15%, of which the area of Acacia plantations died approximately 100 ha, scattered in many places. By 7/2020, the disease was detected in 21 provinces, the area of infected plantations was not ...
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