Farmers appeal for help as disease attacks bora at Moblissa

One of the bora plants withering from the root.

Farmers at Moblissa, Region 10, are concerned about a plant disease outbreak which has been killing their bora plants since last February.

“Since early this year, like around February we notice that at three weeks the plant a dry from the bottom, then kill the whole plant. We seh musee something wrong with the seed, so we get two other set and plant them different and same thing. This set here, same thing again,” farmer Totaram (only name given) told Stabroek News.

It is from Moblissa that Linden residents receive about a quarter of their fresh food