Cadang-cadang

Cadang-cadang is a lethal disease of coconut and other palms, including African oil palm, anahaw and buri, caused by the coconut cadang-cadang viroid. Its name comes from the Bicol word gadang-gadang, meaning dying, and it was first reported on San Miguel Island in the Philippines in 1927 or 1928; by 1962 all but 100 of the roughly 250,000 palms on that island had died from the disease. Roughly one million coconut palms are killed by the viroid each year, and more than 30 million have died since the disease was first identified, directly affecting the production of copra, the raw material for coconut oil and animal feed. The Philippines alone has attributed losses of about 30 million palms and annual yield losses of about 22,000 metric tons of copra to the disease. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/