Florida's main agricultural crop has received a devastating blow from a non curable disease called the Citrus greening.

Unstoppable insects pass the fatal bacteria from one tree to the other and the worst part is that there is no cure for the terrorizing bacteria that kills an infected tree in approximately five years time.

The disease has been reported to have spread in 37 out of 67 counties in Florida that include Hillsborough, Pasco, Pinellas and Polk.

The observers of the industry say that the disease was blamed last year for a loss of around 20 percent of the harvest that was expected. What is more concerning is that it is demoralising more number of farmers and they are keeping their groves out of cirrus production or is leaving the business totally.

Though the agricultural researchers are making an effort to come up with solution to control it and find a cure but nothing seems to be working.

Predictions say that there will be a severe drop in this season's production but some of the industry analysts disagree with that notion. In the last two decades, citrus farmers have abandoned about 300,000 acres of their land and now the industry is left with a total of 500,000 acres with around 60 million trees.

U. S. Department of Agriculture calls the citrus greening "one of the most serious citrus diseases in the world."

Source - http://topnews.us/