From next year, only tomatoes free of the 'horn moth' pest can be exported to Japan

Published 2024년 12월 9일

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Starting January 1st, South Korea will implement new export quarantine guidelines for tomatoes to Japan, as stated by the National Institute of Animal Quarantine. These guidelines aim to eradicate the tomato hornworm pest, a quarantine pest in Japan that causes damage to tomato plants. Exporting tomatoes will be permitted only if they have not been contaminated with the pest two months prior to harvest. Farmers and export sorting facilities will need to register their status with the quarantine headquarters and install fine-mesh nets on cultivation facilities to prevent pest infiltration. Only farms that pass a survey for tomato hornworms, conducted two months before harvest, will be authorized to export tomatoes to Japan. This measure strengthens export quarantine following the discovery of the pest in domestic farms.

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(Sejong=Yonhap News) Reporter Jeon Jae-hoon = Starting next year, only domestic tomatoes that have not been found to have the tomato hornworm pest for two months before harvest will be allowed to be exported to Japan. The National Institute of Animal Quarantine announced on the 9th that the 'Korean Tomato Fresh Fruit Export Quarantine Guidelines for Japan' containing these contents will be applied from January 1st of next year. This is a measure to strengthen export quarantine after the tomato hornworm was found in some domestic farms. The tomato hornworm is a pest that causes damage to farmers by making holes in tomato leaves or piercing holes in fruits and stems, and has been designated as a quarantine pest in Japan. According to the export notice that was previously enacted and promulgated, tomato farms and export sorting facilities must register their current status with the quarantine headquarters and install nets with a diameter of 1.6mm or less on windows and ...

Source: Yna