Confirmed free of hornworm infection when exporting tomatoes to Japan

Starting in January next year, farmers who wish to export fresh tomato fruits and seedlings to Japan must implement net cultivation and tomato hornworm infection verification. The National Institute of Animal Quarantine announced on the 9th that it has established the ‘Notice on Quarantine Guidelines for Exporting Fresh Korean Tomato Fruits to Japan’ in consultation with Japanese quarantine authorities. As the tomato hornworm, an alien quarantine pest, has appeared in Korea, the two countries have newly established risk management measures for tomatoes exported to Japan. Accordingly, tomato fruits and seedlings exported to Japan must meet several requirements. First, the cultivation facility and sorting facility must be registered with the quarantine headquarters, and open areas such as windows and ventilation holes in the cultivation facility must be equipped with nets with a diameter of 1.6mm or less. In addition, the quarantine headquarters must ...