An international coalition of citrus farming and agriculture officials is launching a cross-border plan to suppress the march of a tiny insect that threatens California's $1.6-billion citrus industry. The insect often carries a disease that kills citrus trees and has ravaged orchards in Florida as well as overseas.After a series of meetings this week in Monterrey, Mexico, the coalition said Friday that the nations had agreed to work together to develop strategies to hold down the population of the insect, impose quarantines on the movements of plants and conduct more tests to see how the disease is spreading.read more
