Ecuador: Agrocalidad received 13 phytosanitary notices for fusarium until June

From April to June 2023, the Phytosanitary and Zoosanitary Regulation and Control Agency (Agrocalidad) registered 13 phytosanitary alerts for fusarium (Foc R4T) in the provinces of Bolívar, Napo Manabí and Orellana. However, in that same period, the authority points out, 89 samples of plant tissue were taken where the presence of this disease was ruled out. The report is part of the list of surveillance and control actions that Agrocalidad claims to carry out to exclude this fungus, capable of decimating plantations, and which has already been detected in crops in Colombia and Peru. Until the middle of the year, it is reported, 47,042 monitoring of Musaceae have been carried out, of which 17,745 have been directed exclusively for Foc R4T. Likewise, control of ...