CSIR-FORIG identifies citronella oil extract potency to fight fungus
Forestry Research Institute of Ghana of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR-FORIG) has identified citronella oil/extract as highly potent to fight fungus that causes black pods disease in cocoa. Several trials had been done in the laboratories and now the institute is looking at the concentrations that would be ideal to control the cocoa black pod fungus.