Venezuela: Unconfirmed Fusarium alert worries banana sector
The Fusarium Race 4 has once again put the region on alert, this time due to an unconfirmed alarm of the presence of the fungus in Venezuela. On April 7, there already was a detection in Peru.
Kléber Sigüenza, director of the Chamber of Agriculture of the Second Zone of Ecuador, said this in a statement last Tuesday, during a virtual conversation between the banana cluster and the media.
Another topic of the conversation was the Banana Day event. Juan José Pons, coordinator of the banana cluster, stated that 538 people from 38 countries connected to the Banana Day program, where topics were broadcast highlighting the importance of the Latin American banana industry and specifically Ecuador. There was also time for a discussion on Fusarium Race 4 and the actions taken to prevent it.