National Potato Day: Midagri carries out phytosanitary actions to protect varieties in Peru

Published 2023년 5월 30일

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The National Agrarian Health Service (Senasa) in Peru is working to address phytosanitary issues in the country's potato crops, which cover around 330,000 hectares and face pest challenges like the rancha, Andean weevil complex, Andean moth complex, and quarantine pests such as Tecia solanivora and zebra chips. Senasa provides training to producers on integrated pest management and good agricultural practices, with over 11,000 producers receiving training and 12,452 producers strengthening their knowledge in the past six months. The service also monitors the quality of seed potato, a crucial factor in boosting production yield, and is responsible for seed certification as the seed authority. This effort supports Peru's position as the leading potato producer in Latin America, with access to 14 international markets.

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09:23 | Lima, May. 30. According to Midagri, in Peru there are around 330,000 hectares of potato crops, which can present phytosanitary problems caused by common pests such as rancha, Andean weevil complex, Andean moth complex or quarantine pests such as Tecia solanivora, zebra chips, among others. Also read: National Potato Day: do you know how many varieties exist in Peru? For this, the National Agrarian Health Service (Senasa) works permanently to attend to notifications from producers and instructs them to adequate integrated pest management (IPM) in the field, achieving that in recent years 11,042 producers have received theoretical and practical training. The phytosanitary strategy also contemplated the development of 625 field schools that have managed to strengthen, in a period of six months, the knowledge in good agricultural practices (GAP) of 12,452 producers from the most remote rural communities in the Sierra.From the field to harvestThe use of certified seed is ...

Source: Andina