Biosecurity officials in Queensland are fighting on two fronts to save lucrative agricultural industries under threat from disease. Already stretched battling a devastating banana fungus, then came the unwelcome news a watermelon farm in the north of the state had tested positive to a virus which severely affects produce in the cucurbit family – melons, cucumbers, zucchini and pumpkins. So what is the way forward for farmers in these industries, which together are worth hundreds of millions of dollars? National rural and regional reporter Dominique Schwartz takes a look.

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