London — The non-governmental organisation Concern Worldwide US has warned that an insect-borne infection known as coconut lethal yellowing disease has spread across Mozambique, reducing entire coconut groves to bleak graveyards of a once thriving industry.
What used to be vibrant coconut groves in Quelimane, in Zambezia province, are now flat wastelands with thin, bare trunks rising from the earth.
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