2024-08-05 09:12:42
The Ministry of Agriculture declared as a zone Libre from cotton boll weevil to Baja California, Chihuahua and regions of Coahuila y Sonora.
It fits He stated that this represents a positive impact for the country’s cotton sector, which, with the help of the federal governments and state-owned, protects an area of more than 132 thousand hectares.
The cotton boll weevil is one of the most devastating crop pests, as it can cause losses of up to 100 percent in the crop. performanceand its control represents up to 40 percent of the costs of production.
They are an area free of cotton (Anthonomus grandis) Baja California y Chihuahua and to the municipalities of Sierra Mojada, Coahuila, and Altar, Caborca, General Plutarco Elías Calles, Pitiquito and San Luis Río Colorado, Sonora, which benefits cotton producers, who are in better conditions to place their goods in more and best markets.
The document, published in the Official Journal of the Federation (DOF), indicates that technicians from the National Service of Health, Safety and Agri-Food Quality (Senasica) confirmed the absence of the pest, based on the procedures indicated in the Mexican official standards.
The recognition is valid for 24 months, a period during which the technicians of the Senasica They will maintain surveillance of the Free zone and producers must apply the phytosanitary measures indicated in article 106 of the Regulation of the Federal Law on Plant Health and in the aforementioned Mexican official standards.
The declaration represents a positive impact for the cotton sector, which, together with the federal and state governments, protects an area of more than 132 thousand hectares, from which 518,709 tons of cotton seed, raw material for the textile industry, were obtained in 2023.
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2024-08-05 09:12:42