South Africa supplies Ecuador with a variety of bananas that is tolerant to fusarium

Published 2022년 4월 11일

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Ecuador's Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock has imported 4,620 banana plants of the Cavendish somaclonal variety, Formosana GCTCV-218, from South Africa to prevent Fusarium Race 4 Tropical fungus, which is not yet present in Ecuador. The importation complies with the country's agricultural health and agrobiodiversity laws. The National Institute of Agricultural Research will now evaluate the variety for adaptability and yield. If successful, it will support banana producers in the country.

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The Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock made official the arrival of banana plants of the Cavendish somaclonal variety, called Formosana GCTCV-218, a species that is tolerant to Fusarium Race 4 Tropical (Foc R4T), a fungus that has not yet been detected in Ecuador. This importation of 4,620 plants, explained Minister Pedro Álava, through a press conference, is part of the prevention policies that the country executes in the event of the eventual arrival of the disease. With this, he explained, there would be an alternative in the management of the plague as a response to an eventual entry. The importation of the same takes place after having complied with the current legal regulations of the Organic Law of Agricultural Health (LOSA) and the Organic Law of Agrobiodiversity, seeds and promotion of Sustainable Agriculture (LOASFAS). The Minister explained that the technical team of the Phytosanitary and Zoosanitary Regulation and Control Agency (Agrocalidad) carried out the ...

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