2811) Description of NPPO

The Plant Quarantine and Phytosanitary Service (PQPS) is the National Plant Protection Organisation (NPPO) of Zambia and contact point for …

2812) First detection of Acalitus vaccinii In South Africa

Acalitus vaccinii in a new pest in South Africa and has the potential to cause high crop damage. It was …

2813) First detection of Acalitus vaccinii in South Africa

Acalitus vaccinii in a new pest in South Africa and has the potential to cause high crop damage. It was …

2814) First Detection of Bactocera invadens In Botswana

The detection of B. invadens in Botswana called for an emergency incursion response which is accepted internationally and in accordance …

2815) SPC publishes Biosecurity Manual for Handicrafts

BIOSECURITY MANUAL FOR HANDICRAFTS – Requirements for trade and movement of handicrafts in the Pacific Island Region and beyond” has …

2816) Devastating wheat fungus appears in Asia for first time

Fields are ablaze in Bangladesh, as farmers struggle to contain Asia’s first outbreak of a fungal disease that periodically devastates …

2817) Maldives includes the IPPC in its master plan

Maldives Technical Cooperation ProjectWhen the Republic of the Maldives entered into the process of formulating its Agricultural Master Plan, it …

2818) CALL FOR EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST - Locust Management Specialists

The Sub regional office of the FAO for North Africa supported the Arab Maghreb Union (UMA) and the Near East …

2819) New phytosanitary import requirements - Xylella fastidiosa

Ministry of Agriculture and Environmental Protection of Republic of Serbia published Rulebook on measures to detect, to prevent the spread …

2820) Plants vital to human diets but face growing risks from pests and diseases

4 April 2016, FAO, Rome - Invasive ants that devour crops, or the insidious "olive quick decline syndrome", which scorches …