{"id":52216,"date":"2022-07-08T16:18:34","date_gmt":"2022-07-08T07:18:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/?p=52216"},"modified":"2022-07-08T16:22:38","modified_gmt":"2022-07-08T07:22:38","slug":"highly-infectious-disease-killing-north-korean-apple-pear-trees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/highly-infectious-disease-killing-north-korean-apple-pear-trees\/","title":{"rendered":"A highly infectious disease is killing North Korea&#8217;s apple and pear trees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Some of North Korea&#8217;s fruit producing regions have fallen victim to \u201cfire blight,\u201d a highly contagious disease that can shrivel and kill an entire fruit tree with a single infection.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A source in South Pyongan Province told Daily NK on July 6 that fire blight had recently hit several orchards in Sukchon County and Pyongwon County, major fruit producing regions. According to him, the disease is withering and killing apple and pear trees \u201cas if they were burned in a fire.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe losses are enormous, and there\u2019s a crisis because there\u2019s no way of treating the disease yet,\u201d he added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fire blight, a form of bacterial blight, is a dangerous plant disease that withers leaves, stems and fruits, turning them black as if they were burned. Highly infectious with no real treatments available, the disease forces farmers to uproot all the trees within a 100 meter radius of an infected tree, burning them and burying the remains in the ground. Otherwise, they could lose their entire orchards.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The source said the disease spreads so fast that if symptoms appear, farmers have no choice but to burn and bury the entire orchard.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;To prevent further outbreaks, affected orchards cannot cultivate host plants for three years,\u201d he added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A host plant refers to plants that herbivore insects or caterpillars eat. Since bacteria could survive inside host plants and infect fruit trees, affected orchards cannot cultivate them for a set period of time after an infection. Practically speaking, this renders orchards unable to plant anything for several years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In South Korea, orchards stricken by fire blight are banned from cultivating host plants such as apple or pear trees for three years. Farmers who fail to comply face up to three years in prison or up to KRW 30 million in fines under Article 47 of the country\u2019s Plant Protection Act.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The source said that North Korea&#8217;s fire blight spread from a region that borders China, and that farms are just \u201cwaiting around to get hit\u201d because they have no disinfectants to fight it off.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to South Korea\u2019s Rural Development Administration, fire blight spreads through bacterial mucus secreted by infected trees that mixes with rain and wind, or by insects such as honey bees. It enters infected trees through lenticels and stomata in warm, wet conditions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The blight could spread widely to nearby areas due to the monsoon rains.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With North Korea\u2019s currently wet and warm conditions, infected trees could secrete the fire blight bacteria in the form of mucus. When rain falls, the bacteria could hitch a ride on the rain water to spread to other trees. Bacteria on clippers, saws, gloves and other farming tools could spread to other trees, too.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is why pest control and other disease prevention measures are important. Fruit farmers must take care to thoroughly disinfect all their machinery and work tools with alcohol.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, with pesticides, antibiotics and alcohol in short supply in North Korea, orchards face difficulties in implementing pest control and disinfection practices. In short, farmers appear to be sitting by helplessly as they lose their trees to the disease.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Translated by David Black. Edited by Robert Lauler.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Please direct any comments or questions about this article to dailynkenglish@uni-media.net.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/20220706-3\/\"><em>Read in Korean<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some of North Korea&#8217;s fruit producing regions have fallen victim to \u201cfire blight,\u201d a highly contagious disease that can shrivel and kill an entire fruit tree with a single infection. 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