Colombia: External sensors are formed to prevent banana and plantain production from FocR4T and other diseases

Published 2024년 10월 15일

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A training workshop, in collaboration with the Colombian Agricultural Institute (ICA) and the Association of Banana Growers of Magdalena and La Guajira (ASBAMA), was conducted in Santa Marta to train technicians in the surveillance and prevention of Fusarium Race 4 Tropical (FocR4T) and other diseases affecting banana crops in the Caribbean region. The workshop aimed to empower technicians to identify symptoms and develop monitoring activities, with a goal to register them in an ICA database for disease inspection authorization. The initiative is part of efforts to address the social and export challenges posed by these diseases in Colombia's northern coast.

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A training workshop on external sensors for Fusarium Race 4 Tropical, FocR4T, and other diseases that affect banana crops in the Caribbean region, was held in the city of Santa Marta, within the framework of the Association Agreement No. GCN-004-2024, signed between the Colombian Agricultural Institute (ICA) and the Association of Banana Growers of Magdalena and La Guajira (ASBAMA). According to what was stated by Christian Vargas, phytopathologist of the Technical Directorate of Plant Health of the ICA, the government entity seeks that those who receive the training help in the surveillance and prevention of the disease, at the regional and national level. “The purpose of this activity is to be a training space for those technicians, technologists, agronomists who are part of the banana export production sites, to train them as external sensors (…) so that they, as they are the people closest to the lot and the crop, provide this essential information to the Institute in order to ...

Source: MXfruit