Just like with other pests, the control of the dreaded boll weevil is no longer the responsibility of Senasa but rather the effort of the producers.

The cotton weevil (Anthonomus grandis Boheman) is another pest that no longer has the watchful eye of the National Service of Agro-Food Health and Quality (Senasa), which at the beginning of this year removed its label of "quarantined under official control" to place it, instead, in the group of those already established in the country. "For the weevil you have to talk to INTA, Senasa no longer has any participation," they marked to Bichos de Campo from that agency. And although this decision could be attributed to the cuts in programs made by that sanitary body –as happened with the grape moth in Mendoza and the fruit fly in the Alto Valle-, what prevails among the producers is not so much the complaint but a sense of resignation, facing a pest that successfully bypassed all the containment barriers imposed on it. "It found all the conditions to settle in," lament producers in the sector. Anyway, the sanitary fight against the weevil seems to have become a matter for private ...