date:May 13, 2019
aking the fruit unusable for fresh marketing. The presence of this fungus in the Mediterranean represents a big threat to the citrus sector
According to Asaja, the EC has intercepted 2 shipments infected with CBS in March and five in April, all of them from Tunisia.
For the president of Asaja in the Region of Valencia (Ava-Asaja), the main citrus producing area in Spain, the fact that Tunisia is very close geographically to Egypt, one of the countries that has been increasing its citrus export