Weekly Report - 10 October 2013 (WR-13-40)

REGION | Containing the coffee fungus. The outbreak of roya, a fungus affecting coffee, Central America’s biggest export, is now under control, according to Víctor Villatoro, the head of the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) [WR-13-04]. Villatoro said the outbreak - the worst ever to hit Central America - was now “perfectly manageable with appropriate agricultural practices”. However, he warned that countries would have to continue with efforts to prevent the rust from spreading further, especially when replanting the coffee following harvests in the future.