{"id":246538,"date":"2005-02-08T10:42:19","date_gmt":"2005-02-08T15:42:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2005\/02\/infected-abaco-land-never-to-be-used-for-citrus-crops-again"},"modified":"2005-02-08T10:42:19","modified_gmt":"2005-02-08T15:42:19","slug":"infected-abaco-land-never-to-be-used-for-citrus-crops-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2005\/02\/infected-abaco-land-never-to-be-used-for-citrus-crops-again","title":{"rendered":"Infected Abaco Land Never To Be Used For Citrus Crops Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The land in Abaco affected by citrus canker will probably &#8220;never again&#8221; be used for citrus crops, according to FNM MP Robert Sweeting.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nMr. Sweeting revealed that the farm in question had been struggling long before the infection and would probably have closed its doors anyway.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nIn the wake of a government announcement that a $720,000 contract has been signed for the destruction of the infected crops, Mr. Sweeting said the canker is the last of several difficulties that have beset the Bahamas Star Farm.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\n&#8220;That farm will probably never be used for citrus again,&#8221; he said.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nMr. Sweeting said he is pleased that government has signed a contract for destruction of the more than 300 acres before the disease has a chance to spread.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\n<B>Source: Paco Nunez, The Tribune<\/B><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mr. Sweeting said the canker is the last of several difficulties that have beset the Bahamas Star Farm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-246538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246538\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}