Tashkent intends to lift the ban on the import of infected tomatoes and peppers into the Russian Federation from Uzbek

Rosselkhoznadzor on Thursday announced that since November 26, it has introduced a ban on the import of tomatoes and peppers into the territory of the Russian Federation from the Fergana region in the east of Uzbekistan due to the detection of a quarantine disease in them - tobamovirus. The department explained that this virus is not in the Unified List of Quarantine Objects of the EAEU. However, this does not negate their harmfulness and danger for the country's greenhouse vegetable growing. "Together with the State Plant Quarantine Inspectorate under the Cabinet of Ministers and the Embassy of the Republic of Uzbekistan in the Russian Federation, consultations are being held on this issue with the Rosselkhoznadzor," the statement on the MIVT website says. According to the ministry, this virus was not previously recorded on the territory of Uzbekistan, since it is a new strain of plant virus. "Measures ...