Despite aggressive campaigns to stop citrus greening, the plant disease that has devastated Florida’s citrus industry has continued to spread in the Rio Grande Valley.
As of August 2014, the disease had been found in only 430 Valley trees. That number has since grown to about 1,700, including trees in Houston-area nurseries. The vast majority of the trees have been destroyed, but it’s left the state with six counties in the Valley and Houston areas under quarantine.
The good news for Texas growers is that so far there’s been no widespread loss to the state’s approximately $100 million citrus industry.
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