Colombia: Producers on the border with Venezuela must strengthen prevention measures against Fusarium

Given the reports of Fusarium in the neighboring country, the ICA issued a series of recommendations that plantain and banana producers must follow to prevent the spread of Fusarium. Given the presence of the disease known as Fusarium R4T in Venezuela, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development and ICA are making an urgent appeal to plantain and banana producers in the departments of La Guajira, Cesar, Norte de Santander, Boyacá, Arauca, Vichada and Guainía, which are located in the border area with Venezuela, so that prevention, surveillance and biosafety actions are strengthened to the maximum in their properties. (See: Fusarium, the fungus that haunts banana plantations in the Caribbean) As a result of the information issued by the National Institute of Comprehensive Agricultural Health (INSAI) of Venezuela, the ICA requests all producers (from the backyard onwards), and travelers, not to mobilize plantain and banana material, as well as handicrafts or handles, among ...