The Department of Plant Health of the Department of agriculture, He paid an official report on the suspicion of the finding of nematodes on a potato farm located in Constanza, indicating that after launching the quarantine protocol and carrying out the laboratory tests, they did not find crops with the presence of nematodes of the heterode genre.
Rosa Lazala, Director of Plant Health, when heading a press conference, said that this disease maintains its quarantine plague status absent from the Dominican Republic, thanks to the phytosanitary surveillance and the climatic conditions of the country, which are not favorable.
He also called for potato producers to approach the authorities of this ministry to clarify doubts or suspicions in the phytosanitary order and not be carried out of false information that affects the image of agricultural production.
“We will continue with a sampling process throughout the Constanza Valley, to continue carrying out the corresponding studies, until there is scientific evidence,” said Engineer Lazala.
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The official report indicates that the country is in contact with the Laboratory of the National Reference Center
Phytosanitary of the Senasica of Mexico for when the potato harvest begins to send samples in order to determine the presence or not of the plague.
Similarly, the Regional International Agricultural Health (OIRSA) agency supports the process.
Also, of technicians from the Agricultural Zone of Constance, with whom they made a massive sampling of all the estate farms of the Valley and its surroundings, not finding the presence of the Nematodo in
issue, so suspicion remains in a single farm that is already intervened.
On the instructions of the Minister of Agriculture, Limber Cruz, these tasks will continue, in order to safeguard the national production of items in the Constanza Valley and any other Dominican agricultural area.
Experts also participated Luis Matos CasadoDirector of the IDIAF Plant Protection Program and Research Director of the Faculty of Agronomic and Veterinary Sciences of the UASD; Also, Orlando Félix, in charge of the Agriculture Laboratory Division.
In addition, Ernesto Peña Nina; Director Agrícola de Constanza and Manuel Duran, Sub Director of Vegetable Quarantine.
Due to the associations of Papa producers participated: National Union of Agricultural Producers (UNPRODA), Association of Horticultural Producers of the Constanza Valley and the Federation of Small and Medium Producers of Constance and the Association of Producers of the Cyt, among others.
