A glass of cold orange juice for breakfast – this luxury is at risk. Owing to citrus greening, exports of organic orange juice from Cuba have fallen within a few years from around 1000 tonnes to approximately 25 tonnes today - a collapse of more than 95 per cent. When, in 2011, HLB was also sighted in Yucatan, in southern Mexico, the Coop supermarket chain sprang into action and set up a Salvador Garibay
Links
- fibl.org: Management of the HLB/Citrus Greening Disease
- fibl.org: Activity Report