Colombia’s oil palm industry faces devastation from bud rot

Biofuels Digest
April 08, 2010

In Colombia, the Los Angeles Times has filed an extensive report on the PC disease which has killed or infested up to 60 percent of some African oil palm plantations in the Magdalena River valley, north of Bogota, and elsewhere in the country. According to the report, the Bucarelia plantation has lost oil palms throughout its 12,000 acre palm potation, while nearby farmer Miguel Angel Marquez has also lost 60 percent of his 2000 oil palms on a 35-acre grove.

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