{"id":299799,"date":"2023-03-08T08:00:55","date_gmt":"2023-03-08T12:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/?p=299799"},"modified":"2023-03-07T22:42:28","modified_gmt":"2023-03-08T02:42:28","slug":"government-tackles-black-sigatoka-on-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/homepage\/government-tackles-black-sigatoka-on-island\/","title":{"rendered":"Government tackles Black Sigatoka on island"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_299800\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-299800\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-299800\" src=\"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/black-sigatoka-disease-642x482.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-299800\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Black Sigatoka disease<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Agriculture Minister Roland Royer said the Government of Dominica is reviewing the treatment for Black Sigatoka, a leaf spot disease of banana and plantain plants caused by ascomycete fungus.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He was speaking as a guest on Focus on Government and Development, which aired on DBS Radio recently.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Black Sigatoka disease was first detected in Dominica in July 2012.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWe have a banana and plantain unit at the Ministry, that too we have a few challenges with the Black Sigatoka,\u201d Royer said. \u201cFor the past two months, we have been reassessing it and thinking how we can do things better to ensure that we get the level of production that is desired, so we are reviewing the treatment for Black Sigatoka and the way in which it is done.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He continued, \u201cAs we speak we have a spray team going around spraying for Black Sigatoka\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Furthermore, he stated that going forward the government plans to empower farmers and equip them, so that they can be trained, \u201cto do their own spraying, make the oils and fungicides [available] to them for better management of plantain and bananas.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He explained that most of the farmers are only focused on getting the oil and the fungicide to spray, but field sanitation, the nutrients for the crops, and other cultural practices are essential for the proper management of the Black Sigatoka disease.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cSo we are going to try to push that because we need to expand bananas as well because we have huge demands for bananas in the region,\u201d Royer stated. \u201cWe want to really take advantage of these opportunities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In June 2017\u00a0the Division of Agriculture welcomed to Dominica a team of technicians from French company \u2018Banane De Guadeloupe Martinique\u2019 to apprise the Division of management methods to combat the deadly Black Sigatoka fungus which was affecting the country\u2019s banana crops.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The objective of cooperation is to control the Black Sigatoka&#8211;which is the most popular disease in bananas&#8211;and also to reduce the use of pesticides.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The French team&#8217;s objective was to propose to the Dominican government, a series of trials in attempts to fight the disease which will result in bananas being sold and exported on the local, regional, and international levels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Agriculture Minister Roland Royer said the Government of Dominica is reviewing the treatment for Black Sigatoka, a leaf spot disease of banana and plantain plants caused by ascomycete fungus. 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