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Australia’s banana plague

Name: Australia’s banana plague
Uploaded: 2016-04-13T11:30:14.460Z
Duration: 4 min 14 s
Channel: Financial Times
Description: Outbreak of Panama TR4 disease prompts biosecurity lock down

Panama disease has spread across Asia and now threatens the African banana industry. The FT’s Jamie Smyth visits the location of the latest TR4 outbreak in Queensland, Australia, to see what can be done to halt the spread of the fungus.

April 13, 2016

Filmed by Jamie Smyth. Produced and edited by Paolo Pascual. Additonal footage from Reuters. Still picture from Biosecurity Queensland, Department of Agriculture and Fisheries.