1,600 Elche palms destroyed because of Red Palm Weevil: "The threat of the Red Palm Weevil has forced the destruction of 1,600 palm trees in Elche this year. The regional government has admitted that the problem is ‘complex’ and the possibility that the expansion of the problem could be ‘explosive’.
Manuel Laínez, General Director of Agro Alimentary Research and Technology in the Valencia Generalitat, has been meeting in Elche with local palmeros to discuss the problem. He said that while 1,600 trees seems a very high number, in reality it is a very small part of those historic palms in the town.
He said the Palmeral can be defended, and the plague controlled, but he admitted although progress was good, he would like the situation to be much more satisfactory."
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