PHOTO: The battle against African Boxthorn is about to turn in the favour of local landholders.
Farmers in our district who have been doing battle with boxthorn will soon have an ally in their fight against the invasive weed.
Our area has been targeted under a National Flagship Program as the first to see the release to landholders of a biocontrol agent, a rust fungus Puccinia rapipes.
The fungus is a sworn enemy of the African Boxthorn, coming from the same neighbourhood in South Africa as the plant itself . . .
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