A disease known as mango twig tip dieback is killing thousands of trees and impacting mango production near Darwin.The NT Department of Industry is researching its cause and the NT Farmers Association is calling for more funding to combat its impacts.
The NT Department of Industry, Tourism and Trade first identified mango twig tip dieback in mid-2017 and so far has found it only in the Darwin region. Researchers at DITT's Berrimah Farm laboratory have determined the disease was not caused by exotic pathogens. One farm bulldozed about 2,000 mango trees because no treatments were effective in controlling the disease's spread."You know you've got a big issue when the owner decides they would rather spend money pushing the trees out than continuing with the crop," Mr Hutcheson said.
"We need to actually work out what's causing it and how it is transmitted because we don't know enough about it and it's having an enormous impact."
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