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Old 02-23-2013, 09:20 PM   #289 (permalink)
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Default Re: What did you harvest today (bananas)

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Originally Posted by Julian View Post
They were selling them to farms all over the state. When I went in to pick up my order they were getting ready to send a shipment of Mysore to Maui.. UH had a grant that paid this gal from the Philipines to do the TC's. The goal was to provide affordable disease free TC's for all. When they lost the grant, they could not keep her. It's too bad.
Boy, that really is too bad! For a state that grows a lot of bananas and has problem with banana bunchy top virus, you would think there would be state support for an affordable program like that to provide disease-free TC plants.
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