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New bid to control invasion of pest plants
Plant pathologist Chantal Probst introduces the fi rst batch of rust fungus-infected mile a minute plants into the Ministry of Agriculture shade house at Arorangi on Tuesday.

Following the launch on Tuesday of a bio control agent to bring mile a minute vine under control on Rarotonga, other invasive weeds in the Cook Islands are to be targeted in a $1 million project.

Following the launch on Tuesday of a bio control agent to bring mile a minute vine under control on Rarotonga, other invasive weeds in the Cook Islands are to be targeted in a $1 million project.


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