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IVORY COAST RIPS OFF 100 000 HECTARES OF COCOA TREE TO STOP VIRUS.
100 000 hectares of affected cocoa tree to be ripped off will affect the nations production.
The world’s biggest cocoa producers, Ivory Coast plans to bring down 100 000 hectares of cocoa tree to stop the spread of a plant virus called swollen shoot.
The effected trees are at the main source which include the southwest and west of the country. The strategy was brought up by Gneneyeri Sileu who is in charge of plant protection at the ministry of agriculture.
Cocoa swollen shoot virus disease (CSSVD) is an insect-borne pathogen that typically affects a tree’s harvest in the first year of production. Also, kills the tree within three or four years. There is no treatment, the only solution is to pull out and destroy infected trees.
The outbreak was first recorded in 2004 in the central region of Marahoue, where it destroyed more than 8000 hectares.
CSSVD also affects neighboring Ghana, the world’s number two producer, where it was first discovered in 1936.