Phytosanitary actions are implemented to strengthen asparagus cultivation in Mexico

2000Agro/Editorial The Secretary of Agriculture and Rural Development (Sader) and the national producers of asparagus agreed to join efforts to strengthen health measures of this crop against pests with a low risk of incidence, but that are highly destructive to other plants, such as the fall armyworm (Spodoptera frugiperda). The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO, for its acronym in English) specifies that the fall armyworm is one of the main threats to world agriculture, since, although largely Most people prefer to eat corn, but they can also eat 80 others. crops, including asparagus. The director in head of the National Agri-Food Health, Safety and Quality Service (Senasica), Javier Calderón Elizalde, met virtually with producers, importers, exporters and representatives of the embassies of Mexico in Spain, Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands, who presented the measures applied by the European Union (EU) to prevent the spread of the plague in its ...