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INFORMATION CIRCULAR
Fix this textFebruary 1985
Fix this textClassification
Fix this textPlant Protection
Fix this textSerial No. 94
Fix this textPLANT PROTECTION NEWS
Fix this textNEW PROBLEMS
Fix this textCompiled by
Fix this textSPC Plant Protection Officer
Fix this textBob I kin
Fix this text1. Niue
Fix this textDuring a visit to Niue in May 1984, Grahame Jackson of the Suva-based UNDP/FAO-SPC
Fix this textProject RAS/83/001. found examples of sweet potatoes with little leaf symptoms.
Fix this textBy pure coincidence. SPC Plant Protection Advisory Leaflet 19 is on sweet potato little leaf,
Fix this textw .<ten by Grahame and Mike Pearson of the University of Auckland. New Zealand.
Fix this text2. Fiji
Fix this textBy far the most significant new pest discovered in a new country within the Region was the
Fix this textdetection of Papuana huebneri in Fiji.
Fix this textIhe initial inlection was detected in June 1984 and confirmation of the identity of the
Fix this textinsect obtained in August. An eradication campaign was then planned and begun in late August.
Fix this textI’he initial intestation was found at Veisari, a community about ten km from Suva. This
Fix this textvillage and land for a radius of one km were quarantined and all susceptible plant material was
Fix this textharvested, chopped up and the soil treated with BHC dust. Subsequently a small area of infesta-
Fix this texttion was discovered at Qauia on the edge of the quarantine zone. Dozens of labourers were em-
Fix this textployed in removing and destroying plant material and the first phase of the campaign was/’om-
Fix this textpleted at the end of November.
Fix this textResurveying of the area has detected only dead insects in the treated soil. However, some of
Fix this textthe zone had to be re-worked when the ferns, Angiopteris spp., were found to be hosts.
Fix this textFortunately, the Veisari and Qauia areas are not used for commercial production of taro and
Fix this texttherefore the chances of movement of the pest to other areas are slight.
Fix this textPapuana beetles are found in Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islandsand Kiribati. Veisari is a
Fix this textGilbertese community village.
Fix this textJai Kumar (Senior Research Officer, Plant Pathology) reports the occurrence of the follow-
Fix this textingdiseases for the first time in Fiji:
Fix this textZingiber officinale (ginger) Fusarium ox vsporum
Fix this textPa ssi flora edulis (passionfruit) Phomopsis sp.
Fix this textDacus carota (carrot) Cercospora carotae
Fix this textManihot esculenta (cassava) Periconia manihoticola
Fix this textCajanus cajan (pigeon pea) Phyllosticta cajani
Fix this textand Mycovellosiella cajani var. indica
Fix this textIt's easy and takes two shakes of a lamb's tail!
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