Pomeroon farmers trained to combat red palm mite

Over 100 coconut farmers in the Pomeroon have been offered training and tools to combat the red palm mite.

While the scale of the present red palm mite infestation has not yet been established, Director of the National Agricultural Research and Extension Institute (NAREI) Dr Oudho Homenauth told Stabroek News that a team of officers from NAREI met 97 farmers at Friendship