Spanish producers applaud the cold treatment for imported oranges and call for its extension to other citrus fruits and other products

The Valencian agrarian organizations AVA and La Unió and Cooperatives Agro-Alimentaries consider the forthcoming approval of the cold treatment in transit for European imports of oranges from South Africa that have the "Thaumatotibia leucotreta" or false moth to be an advance, and have asked that it be extended to other products. However, they have described this decision as insufficient as it is limited to oranges from South Africa and not to all citrus fruits (tangerines, grapefruit and lemons), and AVA has assured that it is a "half-measure" and "improper of a group of serious countries" because the false moth can affect other citrus fruits and other crops such as stone fruit, avocado, vineyard, olive tree, persimmon, pomegranate, pepper, tomato and aubergine. In fact, he recalled in a statement that, of the 18 false moth interceptions that citrus shipments from South Africa accumulated in 2021 through the EU entry points, ten were detected were in oranges, four in grapefruit, ...