Leukoplakia brings a disaster to Pakistan (12.12)
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Last Update: 2003-03-12
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Source: Internet
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Author: User
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A few days ago, Pedro Adan Gordon, Minister of agriculture and animal husbandry development of Panama, said that the white spot disease of prawn has brought a disaster to prawn breeding industry in Panama Since this year, 90% of the country's shrimp farms have closed, thousands of workers have lost their jobs, and economic losses have reached as high as $100 million Gordon said that in order to deal with white spot disease, they hired a foreign expert But the media here said that some of the methods proposed by the expert had been tried here before and had little effect White spot of prawn is caused by baculovirus of white spot of prawn, which was found in Panama in early 1999 The disease is so fierce that it takes only two or three days for prawns to die in large numbers The shrimp infected with the disease will lose appetite, do not love to move, white spots or red and white on the head and tail Prawn is one of the main export products of Panama In 1998, the total area of Panama shrimp pond reached 9000 hectares, producing more than 10000 tons of prawn, earning nearly 100 million US dollars, second only to the export of bananas It is reported that if there is no white spot, shrimp exports this year are expected to exceed banana exports for the first time (author:)
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