(ANSA) - BARI - About 11,700 olive trees have been grubbed up because they have been infected by Xylella during the four monitoring campaigns in the last five years: this is what emerged today during the hearings in the Agriculture Committee of Gianluca Nardone, director of the agriculture department of the Region, and of Gennaro Ranieri, Arif commissioner. In the past five years, the two technicians reported, a red zone has been identified on which seven million olive trees persist and over half a million swabs have been performed. Nardone was keen to underline the many similarities that Xylella "shares" with Covid-19, "not only in terms of terminology (red areas, swabs, outbreaks, clusters), but also procedural (starting from the way in which infected plants are searched for) ), as well as organizational ones, such as the authorized laboratories, five, to which the samples are given ". The results, Nardone admitted, "did not live up to expectations, with an excessively high default rate attributed to private individuals". (HANDLE).
Xylella: 11,700 infected olive trees eradicated in 5 years
2020-07-01T18:58:13.270Z
(HANDLE)(ANSA) - BARI - About 11,700 olive trees have been grubbed up because they have been infected by Xylella during the four monitoring campaigns in the last five years: this is what emerged today during the hearings in the Agriculture Committee of Gianluca Nardone, director of the agriculture department of the Region, and of Gennaro Ranieri, Arif commissioner. In the past five years, the two technici...