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Local production of pineapples at risk

Submitted on 13 December 2016 - 1:02am

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Diálogo Digital

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Deborah Rodriguez

José Zamora, a researcher from the Agriculture Extension Service at the University of Puerto Rico, warns about the risk of importing pineapple seeds from Costa Rica due to the possible presence of the fungus Fusarium Oxysporum which could terminate local pineapple production. 

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Tadpoles from endangered toad are sent to Puerto Rico

Submitted on 25 October 2016 - 11:14pm

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El Nuevo Día

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SAN FRANCISCO — More than 4,000 tadpoles reproduced in California were sent to Puerto Rico as part of a program to restore the Puertorrican multicolor toad that was thought extinct.

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