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Year, florida orange harvest prediction. the university of florida is doing millions of dollars of research, stem grafting with root stocks, all in an effort to discover a greening resistant orange tree, genetic research bit citrus industry is also underway because a solution needs to come quick. in the eight years since citrus greening disease first showed up in florida, the orange production has dropped from 150 million box as year, to 120 million boxes. >> that's a distinct possibility. the research community is working as fast as we can. the growers are looking for something to buy time, t...

Emergency response frame work to battle citrus greening. they've contributed $250,000 worth of research already like that at florida laboratorying, stem grafting to produce the resistant tree. >> we have the advanced material of our breeding program. the new varieties of oranges, new varieties of root stock. these are the mother trees. >> the florida orange harvest that's just beginning is projected to be the smallest in the past 24 years. since greening disease first showed up, florida citrus has lost $5 billion in sale, 8,000 agriculture jobs and the threat of losing the orange forever is on...