Australian banana growers fear biosecurity risk from Northern Territory lifting quarantine
date:Aug 02, 2012
banana industry to the devastating banana disease Panama Tropical Race 4.
This decision could crush Queenslands banana industry, Mr McVeigh said.
Im calling on the Northern Territory Government to change its mind and reinstate the quarantine for the sake of common sense, Mr McVeigh added.
However the Northern Territory Government defended its action.
The Northern Territorys Governments director of biosecurity, Dr Andrew Tomkins, says that the disease has been spreading in spite of quarantine ord

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