The United States Department of agriculture animal and plant health inspection service before the proposal, which allows 5 from mainland Chinese fresh citrus fruit imports to the United States, the United States, caused by growers and state regulators concerned. That allowed the import of citrus fruit, including fresh grapefruit, orange, citrus, orange and Mandarin in Wenzhou.
Import conditions, should be a system to citrus production methods, including the registration of orchards and packaging field locations, purchases of pest propagation material, by China mainland plant protection agency regularly check pest, to protect fruit bagging, after picking and processing of sample, and imported fruits shall be used for commercial purposes. In addition, the animal and Plant Health Inspection Bureau will require the orchard to set traps to capture several species of fruit flies, the use of traps and bait, the number of traps and set distance, etc. should be listed in the work plan.
In addition, the United States imported into the citrus fruit, must be accompanied by the mainland Plant Protection Agency issued Chinese phytosanitary certificate, proof of the fruit with import conditions, and has identified no pest. The plant protection authorities in the mainland of China shall submit a work plan to the United States Bureau of animal and plant health inspection for the purpose of meeting the above requirements. The work plan as approved, the animal and Plant Health Inspection Bureau will cooperate with the mainland Chinese plant protection mechanism, the status of implementation of monitoring and assessment, the former may also send investigation.
In October, the National Commission on plant was submitted to the Department of animal and plant health inspection (27) for more safeguards to prevent the spread of pests from mainland China into the United states. The committee pointed out that in the opinion of the input, Chinese fresh citrus fruit have the opportunity to put 22 kinds of pest to the continental United States, the possibility of 6 is particularly high, each of us grain crops such as citrus, or Vegetable & Fruit pose significant risks.
On the other hand, the Florida State Department of agriculture and consumer services, planting submission, suggested that the animal and plant health inspection service to prohibit any China mainland fresh citrus fruit input in Florida, because once the accident spread citrus pests, will cause serious damage to agriculture in florida. In particular, the Department of agriculture is concerned that 13 kinds of insect pests may be introduced into the United States from the mainland.
A representative of the state of California and Arizona, about 3500 of citrus growers farmers cooperatives, also worry there will be the introduction of the pest state. The society on 27 October to the animal and plant health inspection service submission, emphasize the industry in recent years by foreign disease challenges, America cannot afford more risk of farmers.
