date:Sep 19, 2019
An official of the Department of Agriculture (DA) in the Davao Region said areas affected by the Fusarium wilt, also known as Panama disease, may double by this year.
Virgelio Gutierrez, a science research specialist of the DA-Davao Regional Crop Protection Center, said based on their latest survey, as of 2015, there are a total of 15,507 hectares (has.) of banana plantations in Davao Region that have been affected by Tropical race 4 (TR4), a strain of the fungus Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. cuben