The Palawan Provincial Board has appealed for President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s intervention in the province’s decades-old fight against the mango pulp weevil.
The board approved...
The mango pulp weevil has been detected in Roxas after the municipality was previously considered free of the pest, raising concerns over the effectiveness...
This comes in the wake of the admission that despite the existing ban on transporting mangoes from the infected Palawan south to the north and rest of the province, at least six barangays of Roxas have already been contaminated and are now no longer weevil free. Abandoning the Langogan checkpoint and setting up a new one beyond the affected areas was a forced move if only to protect the rest of the north.
With at least six villages in the northern town of Roxas already infected by the mango pulp weevil (MPW), quarantine boundaries have been moved to contain the pest's total infestation of Palawan.
