Review of Work in Plant Pathology in British Guiana, 1950–1964

Abstract

Abstract The Plant Pathology Division of the Ministry of Agriculture, Forests, and Lands was established in 1950, primarily to give attention to the diseases of sugar cane, the country's most important cash crop. In due course, work e×panded to investigate and advise on various diseases attacking other crops such as citrus, cocoa, coffee, vegetables and grasses. There was no pathologist appointed in the period 1957–1960.