Agriculture avoids entry and establishment of pests to the country with the Epidemiological Surveillance Program in Mexico

Published 2020년 8월 10일

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The release provides an overview of the activities of the National Service for Agrifood Health, Safety and Quality (Senasica) in Mexico in 2019 under its Phytosanitary Epidemiological Surveillance Program (PVEF). The program aimed to prevent the introduction, establishment, and dispersal of quarantine pests. With a team of 364 technicians across 32 states, the program successfully detected and prevented over 790 thousand harmful insects from threatening food production. These pests included ambrosial red laurel beetle, citrus canker, khapra weevil, tomato moth, banana moko, and earworm. The detection was concentrated mainly in trapping routes, with additional findings in exploration areas, surveillance routes, plots, and sentinel plants. The program monitors various areas including agricultural, wild, marginal, and urban to safeguard the country's main crops.

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SADER PRESS RELEASE. Through six monitoring systems, Senasica technicians detected more than 790 thousand harmful insects for food production, and there is an operational force of 364 technicians in the 32 states. Some of the pests are ambrosial red laurel beetle, citrus canker, khapra weevil, tomato moth, banana moko, and earworm. Through the Phytosanitary Epidemiological Surveillance Program (PVEF), during 2019 technicians from the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development avoided the introduction, establishment and dispersal of 30 quarantine pests, by detecting more than 790 thousand insects that could put the production of plant foods in Mexico. The National Service for Agrifood Health, Safety and Quality (Senasica) operates the PVEF throughout the national territory, through the State Plant Health Committees and covers agricultural, wild, marginal and urban areas, identified as risk zones. There is an operational force of 364 technicians in the 32 states, made up of 34 ...

Source: Inforural