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Mexico's Government has inaugurated a breeding and sterilization plant for male Mediterranean flies in Chiapas, as part of the MOSCAMED program. The plant aims to produce sterile males, doubling the current production from 500 million to one billion per week, to protect two million hectares of crops worth nearly 190 billion pesos from the Mediterranean fly, a potentially devastating pest. The program is crucial for the country's food security and the economic well-being of over five million agricultural workers, with the Ministry of Agriculture emphasizing the importance of advanced techniques like the sterile insect technique for pest control. The MOSCAMED program, recognized globally for its success in controlling fruit flies, has been operational since 1982, maintaining Mexico's status as fly-free since then through environmentally friendly control measures.
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In order to protect around two million hectares that host fruit and vegetable crops with a value of close to 190 billion pesos, the Government of Mexico inaugurated the breeding and sterilization plant for male Mediterranean flies, which operates within the shares of the MOSCAMED Program of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (SADER). "The MOSCAMED program generates a public good that benefits food producers, but especially consumers," said the head of the SADER, Víctor Villalobos Arámbula when taking the floor during the inauguration of the new plant of the National Health Service, Inocuity and Agrifood Quality (SENASICA), located in Metapa de Domínguez, Chiapas, an event chaired by the President of the Republic, Andrés Manuel López Obrador. Likewise, during the event, the federal official stressed: «With the opening of this plant, small and medium-scale producers who do not have the technical and financial resources to face an agricultural pest such as the ...
Source: MXagronoticias
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