National phytosanitary alert declared due to a pest attacking sunflowers in Argentina

Published Nov 8, 2024

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Argentina's National Service for Agri-Food Health and Quality (Senasa) has issued a nationwide alert for the pest Orobanche cumana, previously detected in Bolivia and not present in Argentina. The pest poses a significant threat to sunflower cultivation, potentially leading to crop losses, increased production costs, and negative impacts on national and international trade. In response, Senasa has published Resolution 1347/2024, establishing a framework for prevention, detection, containment, and eradication of the pest, including mandatory reporting of any detection. An Interinstitutional Technical Committee will be led by the National Directorate of Plant Protection to coordinate actions and develop strategies for the pest's management.

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The National Service for Agri-Food Health and Quality (Senasa) declared a phytosanitary alert for the entire national territory regarding Orobanche cumana, a quarantine pest absent in Argentina - but detected in Bolivia - and which represents a great risk for sunflower cultivation. The provision, established in Resolution 1347/2024 that was published in the Official Gazette, aims to strengthen public-private inter-institutional actions to determine the situation of the pest in the country, achieve a rapid response to an eventual detection and inform researchers, producers and society in general of the situation. In this sense, it establishes the measures for prevention, detection, containment and eradication of the weed as well as the mandatory reporting upon detection of the presence and/or suspicious damage. Likewise, the Interinstitutional Technical Committee on Orobanche cumana is created, which will be led by the National Directorate of Plant Protection of Senasa, to ...

Source: Chacra Magazine