Statement by the Hon Audley Shaw, CD, MP Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries On the Tropical Race 4 Disease Prevention Measures to Safeguard the Jamaican Banana and Plantain Industry Houses of Parliament October 8, 2019
Mr Speaker, I wish to bring to the attention of this Honourable House a matter of serious national implication – the emergence of the Tropical Race 4 (TR4), disease previously called “Panama Disease” in this hemisphere and the potential threat it poses to the local and regional banana and plantain industry. Mr Speaker, The Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and...