China: Customs releases Indonesian banana plant quarantine requirements

On November 23, the General Administration of Customs issued a notice on the plant quarantine requirements for importing Indonesian fresh bananas. The announcement stated that it is limited to the import of immature green bananas for consumption from Indonesian banana production areas, and the quarantine pests of concern include Cocococus, brown wax scale, plantain anthracnose, pineapple mealybug, pineapple mealybug and Trichrodispora cocoa. Indonesia is one of the major banana producing countries in the world. The distribution of banana planting areas is relatively concentrated, and about 70% of them are distributed in Java. Due to the good domestic market, the export volume of Indonesian bananas is not large, and some of them are exported to Asian countries such as China and Japan. Part of it is exported to the Middle East. In recent years, due to the frequent El Niño phenomenon, Indonesian banana production has been affected. In 2021, the total export value of Indonesian ...