SAG in Chile authorizes a new batch of strawberry nematode-free plants, reaching 12 million available

The Agricultural and Livestock Service, SAG, informs that after the sampling and analysis carried out in nurseries contaminated by the strawberry nematode (Aphelechoides fragariae), yesterday it authorized more than 7 million plants of the Monterrey variety for sale, after verifying the absence of the plague after its treatment with phosphine. This release of healthy plants is the third to be carried out in recent weeks, and corresponds to 13.5% of the strawberry plants that the Service kept withheld, whose total volume corresponds to 52 million. The first authorization was at the end of October, when the restriction on 3,660,000 million strawberry plants for marketing was lifted. To date, the Service has ...