2161) Report of Black Sigatoka disease in bananas in Tobago

Black Sigatoka disease was discovered in Trinidad in 2003 but was not detected in Tobago in a survey in 2005. …

2162) International Cooperation on Fruit Flies continues

The Technical Panel on Pest Free Areas and Systems Approaches for Fruit Flies (TPFF) convened in Vienna from 19 to …

2163) Implementation framework for the IPPC capacity building strategy drafted by OEWG

An Open-ended Working Group to finalize the operational plan and develop an implementation framework for the IPPC capacity building strategy …

2164) South American Leaf Blight in Singapore

From 2005 to 2010,a detection survey on Microcyclus ulei was conducted on rubber trees, imports from SALB-endemic countries and passenger …

2165) Report of outbreak of Erwinia amylovora in Rep. of Korea in 2019

Erwinia amylovora (Ea) was confirmed in 17 pear orchards and 99 apple orchards in Korea by 28 June 2019 with …

2166) The IPPC Generic ePhyto National System will go live on the 15th of July

The IPPC Secretariat is proud to announce that on July 15th the Generic National System component of the IPPC ePhyto …

2167) Minimizing the impact of plant pests - a global surveillance system for crop diseases

Originally native to the Americas, since 2016 the Fall Armyworm, a destructive pest, has rapidly spread into Africa, the Near …

2168) The report of the 2019 meeting of the Standards Committee Working group SC-7) is now posted!

The 2019 meeting of the Standards Committee Working group (SC-7) was held from 13 to 17 May 2019 in Rome, …

2169) Notification on the detection of Bactrocera dorsalis (Oriental Fruit Fly) in Grabouw, in the Southern Part of the Western Cape Province of South Africa

Three Bactrocera dorsalis specimens were detected in the affected area between the first and the third week of April, 2019.

2170) Pest Free Status - South American Leaf Blight in Singapore

Microcyclus ulei (South American Leaf Blight/SALB) is listed as a quarantine pest in Singapore. Survey of SALB in Singapore has …