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Council allocates $250,000 to fight plant from hell
The local war against Tropical Soda Apple, described as “the plant from hell”, has received a huge boost thanks to an army of contractors.
Kempsey Shire Council has allocated $250,000 of the $1 million of the Federal Government’s Drought Communities Programme Extension to fight the noxious weed which falls under a control order imposed on landholders across the whole of NSW.
Tropical Soda Apple is a highly invasive weed with the ability to dominate farming properties and threaten livelihoods. First identified in NSW in August 2010 in the Upper Macleay over the following years through flooding and stock eating its fruit, it proved to be an incredibly strong survivor and spreader.