Contaminated spray may cost region’s apple exporters $3m
By Doug Laing
doug.laing@hbtoday.co.nz
REMOVED: The imported Mancozeb has been withdrawn from sale after russet was discovered in Royal Gala crop.
The apple industry is still not sure of the cost of a fungicide contamination which has threatened to destroy 35ha of apples in Hawke’s Bay and lop several million dollars off the value of the export harvest.