date:Jul 10, 2017
Technicians from the Regional Council of Agriculture of the Government of Valencia started Monday with the destruction of trees and plant material hosting the bacterium Xylella fastidiosa within a radius of 100 metres of a plantation in Guadalest. It is the first time that the bacterium has been detected in the Peninsula.
These actions are part of the protocol launched last Friday, after the presence of the bacterium was detected on a plot with almond trees in the municipality of Alicante. Its