Papaya trees decapitated
Papaya trees decapitated
Vandals Destroy 10 Acres Of Big Island Papayas
Island Television, 20 Jul 2011
Vandals struck three farms in the Kapoho area on the Big Island, cutting down about 10 acres of genetically engineered papaya trees with machetes. “They were mostly ready to pick. We were going to pick them tomorrow. We were going to harvest them tomorrow," said farmer Lea Bernardo.
Genetically engineered ringspot-resistant papaya saved Hawaii's papaya crop from decimation in the 1990s. Other than genetic engineering, no viable approach to combating papaya ringspot virus existed then or now.
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