After a battle lasting almost 25 years, Western Australia's $45 million potato industry has been declared free of the devastating potato cyst nematode (PCN).
In 1986, PCN was detected on six properties out of Perth, putting a block on the export of WA potatoes to lucrative Asian markets.
Now, in what's believed to be a world first, Western Australia has eliminated the pest and has been reinstated as a potato cyst nematode free area.
Western Australia's Agriculture Minister Terry Redman expects that area freedom will give the Western Australia's potato industry a marketing boost and open up previously inaccessible markets.
Western Australia declared Potato Cyst Nematode free
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