Cautious et al9 Apr 2013 09:20
Found I've still got some ACHL in an old ISA tucked away in the bottom of a creaky old chest in the dusty old attic!
Interesting discussions on citrus canker, the RNS does seem to play it down but are they trustworthy?
From the RNS :
"The 18.4% decrease in the production volume of summer crop in 2013, by comparison to the production volume supplied in the first half of last year, is due largely to the effect on the Hepu plantation of the unstable weather conditions experienced during 2012 which has led to an extensive infection of citrus canker, a latent infection amongst orange and other citrus crops which is for the most part controllable in normal weather conditions but to which such crops are at much higher risk during periods of heavy rainfall and typhoons, such as those experienced in 2012. The infection resulted in a significant volume of premature fruit drop in the summer crop."
Don't know too much about farming especially in China but how come most of this year's (2013)summer crop has prematurely dropped off the trees already? Doesn't late March seem a tad early for harvesting this year's summer crop?
There is so much this management know way before they let it out. To be honest, the more I think about it, I don't trust them any more.
Anyway, still in and waiting for news on the new production unit due to start production this April, although they never mentioned how the December trialling went,