Daffodil crisis

Monday 26 February 1996 00:02 GMT
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Daffodil crisis

The price of daffodils could soar this spring as the crop is affected by the cold weather and an invasion by the narcissus fly which has infected 10 per cent of bulbs. Millions of pounds worth of commercial stock is under threat from the fly's larvae which burrow into the bulbs and eat them.

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