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March 5, 2018

From left, Courtney Cole, Chief Technical Director for Special Projects, Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, discusses citrus tree with Alfred Barrett, Jamaica Citrus Protection Officer Plant Quarantine at Bodles Citrus Day held at Bodles Research Station in St. Catherine on March 2. Some 46 varieties of citrus are maintained in a clean state by the Post Entry Quarantine Unit at Bodles and are tested regularly for the more common and problematic diseases that affect citrus.

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