Peru: Phytosanitary requirements updated for imports of Chilean cranberry plants
The plants will come from nurseries or germplasm banks registered and authorized by the Agricultural and Livestock Service of Chile (SAG) for the official export certification.
The National Service of Agrarian Health (Senasa) updated the phytosanitary requirements of necessary compliance in the importation of cranberry plants of origin and origin Chile.
Through the Directorial Resolution N ° 0031-2016-Minagri-Senasa-DSV, published yesterday in the official journal "A Peruvian man", it is indicated that the plants will come from nurseries or germplasm banks registered and authorized by the Agricultural and Livestock Service of Chile (SAG) for the official export certification.
The SAG will send annually, at the beginning of each export season, the updated list of nurseries authorized to export to Peru. The Senasa, in coordination with its Chilean counterpart, will be able to carry out supervisory visits to the producer nurseries if necessary.
The shipment must have the Import Phytosanitary Permit issued by Senasa, obtained by the importer or interested party, prior to certification and shipment in the country of origin or provenance. In addition, it must be accompanied by an official Phytosanitary Certificate from the country of origin, which states:
- That the material comes from mother plants officially inspected by the National Plant Protection Organization - NPPO and through laboratory analysis found free of: Pseudomonas syringae pv.syringae, Rhizobium rhizogenes, Blueberry shoestring virus, Blueberry mosaic virus.
- Free product: Botryosphaeria dothidea, Pratylenchus penetrans, Neofusicoccum arbuti, Neofusicoccum corticosae, Neofusicoccum mediterraneum, Neofusicoccum nonquaesitum, Neofusicoccum australe [tel. Botryosphaeria australis], Australafrican Diaporthe, Diaporthe vaccinii, Fusicoccum putrefaciens [tel. Godronia cassandrae]. (Corroborated by laboratory analysis)
- Free product: Brevipalpus chilensis, Aegorhinus superciliosus, Naupactus xanthographus, Ceroplastes sinensis, Lobesia botrana, Oligonychus ilicis, Ametastegia glabrata, Otiorhynchus rugosostriatus, Otiorhynchus sulcatus, Pseudococcus cribata, Orgyia antiqua, Proeulia auraria, Proeulia chrysoptris, Proeulia triquetra.
About the pre-shipment treatment
This must be immersed in abamectin 0.018 ‰ + chlorpyrifos 0.85 ‰ for 2 to 5 minutes and immersion in thiabendazole 1.3 ‰ + thiram 2 ‰ for 15 minutes or other products of equivalent action.
The substrate or conditioning material must be a pest-free medium, whose condition shall be certified by the NPPO of the country of origin and recorded in the Phytosanitary Certificate.
The containers will be new and of first use, closed and resistant to handling, free of material foreign to the product, duly labeled with the name of the product and the exporter.
The importer must have his Registry of Importers, places of production and technical managers of material subject to current post-entry quarantine.
About the phytosanitary inspection at the point of entry to the country
The Inspector of SENASA will take a sample to be sent to the Unit of the Plant Health Diagnostic Center of SENASA, in order to rule out the presence of pests listed in the additional declaration. The cost of the diagnosis will be assumed by the importer.
The post-entry quarantine process will last for sixteen months. During this period, the material installed at the production site will be submitted by Senasa to five mandatory inspections to monitor the post-entry quarantine, and to a final mandatory inspection for the post-entry quarantine survey, the results of which will be available end of the product.
Source: Agraria.pe
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