The technical citrus committee met upon the arrival of the resources for the HLB control campaign program. The meeting was attended by SAGARPA's federal delegate for the BCS, the engineer Trinidad Cota Acosta; the entity's Plant Health Committee, the Fundacion Produce, INIFAP, Eco Citricos, Autonomous University of BCS and citrus producers representatives to discuss the situation in which the orchards of the valley of Santo Domingo are and to receive information from the vector's field trial studies and the Huanglongbing's psyllid.
Engineer Julio Guillen from the Plant Health committee presented, with statistics, the state of the region regarding this citrus disease where, to date, there have been no alerts issued for the vector and the psyllid has been controlled. He introduced the ARCO program that will cover 2,380 hectares in two regional control areas in 2013. It will start this coming Monday with the spraying of the areas after having sampled the orchards and having sent the samples to the national laboratory, waiting for the results that, as has been observed in previous months, have been controlled.
The fumigation of the area will be carried out independently of the results, be they positive or negative, in order to strengthen and further lower the vector's index. Likewise, urban areas that haven't been neglected will be equally fumigated in order to control HLB. Accompanying SAGARPA's delegates were Hugo Bojorquez Cardenas, chairman of the state committee of Plant Health, Efren Beltran, agricultural undersecretary of state government, Gabriel Vizcarra, director of health and food safety, Ariel Valdez, Dr. Guadalupe Loya representative of the UABCS and Max Martinez, head of the district rural development, among others.
Source: Elsudcaliforniano
