Urgent meeting to discuss new threat to banana industry

CASTRIES, St. Lucia, CMC-Agriculture Ministers from the Windward Islands will be meeting here on Thursday to prepare for another major threat to the still vital regional banana industry.
The industry is grappling with the Asian banana disease, described as a new and formidable enemy, which authorities describe as being worse than Black Sigatoka.
Officials say the disease is fairly new and associated with the rise in temperatures. As a result, the Ministries of Agriculture in the four islands are seeking to adopt all precautionary measures.