Tamarillo grower Ray Paterson talks to Glenys Christian about the human as well as financial cost when a pest incursion cripples dreams.Far North tamarillo grower Ray Paterson has always counted himself as being fortunate when diseases hit producers in other areas.He believed his property's relative isolation just north of Awanui on the way to Cape Reinga gave him a degree of protection.While the tamarillo mosaic virus was a big problem for growers in the rest of Northland his trees remained relatively unscathed.
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