Gyeongnam and Jeonnam collaborate on pine wood nematode disease control…Establishing a prevention belt along the Somjin River.

(Hadong=Yonhap News) Reporter Lee Jeong-hoon = Gyeongnam Province held a 'Joint Pine Wilt Disease Prevention Conference' with Jeonnam Province at the Hadong County Office on the 19th. The province explained that organic cooperation between adjacent local governments is important to prevent the spread of pine wilt disease, which spreads regardless of administrative boundaries, and thus promotes joint prevention. The two metropolitan local governments, the Western Regional Forestry Office, and the Gyeongnam Hadong County, Jeonnam Gwangyang City, and Gurye County, which share administrative boundaries, attended the conference. Both sides plan to create a 150 to 200 meter wide prevention belt along the Seomjin River, which is the boundary between Gyeongnam and Jeonnam, to prevent the pine wilt disease from spreading beyond the provincial boundaries. Infected pine trees will be removed or preventive injections will be administered, and the prevention belt will be established by planting other trees in the areas where the pines have been cut down. Additionally, they will cross-check each other's regions centered on the boundary points and strengthen the exchange of prevention information. seaman@yna.co.kr