The huanglongbing blight from China has destroyed most of Florida’s citrus groves. There is no cure. All the land in this video was an orange grove whose trees were killed by the blight.
I’ve been following the huanglongbing blight in Florida for the past three years. There are some promising off-the-shelf products to strengthen the trees and fruit, but a Research-Industrial Complex is waiting to let the groves die out and replace the trees with GMOs.
From 2020. centerforsecuritypolicy.org/another-pestil…
Shocking to see the state of Florida orange groves. This wasn’t hurricane or frost damage, but huanlongbing blight from Communist China. The scenes are similar in county after county.
This 100-acre desert in Florida was once an orange grove. The huanglongbing killer bacteria wiped out the trees. It has been leveled to make way for something else.
The huanglongbing plague wiped out this mature Florida orange grove years ago, and the farmer just gave up.
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