THE GOLDEN WORM INVASION
Tuesday, May 20, 2003
Hundreds of hectares of potato farms in Tulungrejo, East Java, have been destroyed by a pest carried into Indonesia by imported seed potatoes.
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MANU looks with sadness as he gazes over his potato farm in the village of Tulungredjo in the East Java district of Kota Batu. Spread over a hectare of land, the farm is a picture of failure after a recent invasion by a pest unknown before in Indonesia. In the past two months, a swarm of nematodes known by its scientific name as Globodera rostochiensis and called by the locals as cacing emas or golden worm have wreaked havoc on hundreds of
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