07/03/2017
In a lecture in Asharqia
Chamber
Eng.
Abdul Muneim Ben Ali Shawwaf in Date Palm Center in Al Ahsa reviewed investment opportunities in the agricultural
sector represented in the establishment
of centers for the treatment of seedlings by immersion in each region and in
accordance with the terms and conditions required by the process as a measure
of organizational internal quarantine to allow the transfer of seedlings
between areas, and it includes practical immersion of seedlings to be
transferred to
one of pesticides to ensure they are free of the red palm weevil injury when
transported.
Al Shawwaf said in the lecture
that was organized by Asharqia Chamber
on Monday in collaboration with the Ministry of Environment, Water and Agriculture
in the Eastern Province titled (the importance of internal quarantine to limit
the spread of the red palm weevil) After an introduction of the damage and the risk of the red palm weevil
that the Ministry of Agriculture is
aware of the importance of changing the strict quarantine and
which allow the transfer of seedlings is strictly prohibited and turn it into a
partial in order to avoid the multiple strict quarantine disadvantages , most
notably: low economic returns to farmers, gathered seedlings under the palms,
which strain the palm moms, and also considered appropriate for the injury
environment, in addition to the difficulty of the checking
procedures by the technical examination,
as the ones against the law are expected to increase because of the lack of means for the trading
of the seedlings. Shawwaf said in the lecture, which was headed by the vicar of
the agricultural committee in the Chamber Hussein Al Dossari, that this
measure will allow farmers and citizens to transfer and circulation of
seedlings legally and systematically with punishing violators of the system,
said Shawwaf that the Ministry of Agriculture carried in the 2016 change of
internal quarantine measures to become a possibility to allow the trading and
transfer seedlings
and issuing temporary certificates of origin contracting areas with the contractor
to apply a special mechanism immersion (immersion)
according to the mechanism approved by the ministry.
Al
Shawwaf talked about the stages of the
mechanism which requires the farms in the first stage cleaning and processing
to be tested by the technicians, the ministry which can with the discovery of
the injury easily if they advanced in this case is disposed of by peaceful
means, and in the case of not seeing the symptoms of the second phase which is
treated with
the Alphipprunel pesticide concentration of 0.004% for a
period of 30 minutes with constant stirring, so as to eliminate the decay
phases, if any, (eggs and small larvae)
Al Shawwaf reviewed the procedures related to obsolete immersion seedlings a regulatory and
administrative procedures, and the technical dowsing and the procedures
relating to the one in charge. At
the end of the lecture, the spokesman was honored with a memorial shield.
