And while screw-worm is lurking, wild fusarium is a live threat that has already affected 40 thousand acres of cane fields. Mai said they even tried to activate a state of emergency:
Jose Mai, Minister of Agriculture
"The figures I saw were about 40 ,000 acres affected at different levels. There's mild and there's, I think, medium type, and then there's a serious infection. And that, those fields that were just very weak infections with the climate, the rain and the humidity, will then move on to being more seriously affected."
"I went to cabinet and explained to cabinet. I think that there was a request for us to declare a state of emergency, but that does not, there's no law for us, there's not provision of the law for us to do that on agriculture."
"I think NIMO and the Disaster Act can declare a state of emergency, but for floods, fires, not for any phytosanitary or animal health disease."
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