Chile: Ministry of Agriculture reaffirms its commitment to support strawberry producers affected by nematode

With the release of 12 million healthy plants by the SAG and the reallocation of $2,000 million for farmers affected by the strawberry nematode (Aphelechoides fragariae), the Ministry of Agriculture reaffirms its commitment to the affected producers as to offer all its support to deal with this complex situation and thus minimize economic losses as much as possible. November 13, 2022.- On Friday, November 11, the SAG authorized more than 7 million plants of the Monterrey variety for sale, after verifying the absence of the pest after its treatment with phosphine. With this third release, the Service reached 12 million healthy plants available for sale and adds to the 16 million healthy plants without treatment that were released at the beginning of the sampling in the affected nurseries, with a total of 28 million. It should be noted that the SAG during this week will carry out a resampling of the batches that are still positive despite treatment with phosphine, in order to ...