Melon virus eradication no longer an option: NT government

By Lyndon Keane
Updated March 27 2015 - 7:30am, first published 7:00am
GATE SHUT ON ERADICATION: Primary Industry and Fisheries Minister Willem Westra van Holthe says eradicating cucumber green mottle mosaic virus in the Northern Territory is "no longer technically feasible".
GATE SHUT ON ERADICATION: Primary Industry and Fisheries Minister Willem Westra van Holthe says eradicating cucumber green mottle mosaic virus in the Northern Territory is "no longer technically feasible".

Watermelon growers in the Katherine region have been dealt a further blow after the Northern Territory government announced on Thursday that it was no longer feasible to eradicate cucumber green mottle mosaic virus.

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