2023-04-25 03:40:54
National
Source: The 19 Digital
Tania Ceron
April 24, 2023
With the objective of strengthening capacities for surveillance and prevention of the fusarium wilt disease, which affects the production of plantains and bananas, the Nicaraguan government through the Cabinet of Production, Consumption and Commerce headed by the Institute for Protection and Agricultural Health (IPSA) and the National System for the Prevention, Mitigation and Attention of Disasters (Sinapred) held the opening ceremony of the Phytosanitary Field Drill to be carried out in the country.
The drill will in turn have delegations from the Dominican Republic, Mexico, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Peru, Haiti, Guatemala and Honduraswho will know the mechanisms that Nicaragua has to face situations that affect national production and other phenomena.
“We believe that the exercise that is going to be carried out in our country is part of a strategic element that Nicaragua has been building within its development, which is to anticipate all those events that may affect the life and development of Nicaraguans. Nicaragua, one of the central elements of its development has been to build a national disaster prevention and care system that has allowed us in recent years to ensure the tranquility and safety of our people, families and communities “referred Guillermo González, co-director of the National System for Disaster Prevention, Mitigation and Attention.
“This exercise is of vital importance, as it will allow us to put into practice what the country has been developing in recent years, and it will be very important to know your observations, comments, in such a way that it allows us to increasingly strengthen our system.Gonzalez added.
Likewise, the iEngineer Ricardo Somarriba, Executive Director of IPSAsaid that the main mission of the inter-institutional commission is to develop actions to guarantee health in national production.
“In 2023 we approved a resolution called the Phytosanitary Alert Declaration for the application of the protocol line. The IPSA has 400 qualified engineers and we have a line of skills reaching specialists and we have held 205 events, we have trained 4,484 producers, including 1,560 women”he pointed.
Nicaragua stands at the forefront at the regional level
The work mechanisms implemented by Nicaragua in the presence of phytosanitary situations have received recognition from international organizations that highlight their effectiveness.
“Phytosanitary disasters have almost never been on the radar of the concept of disasters, that has already changed, the incursion of a disease like the tropical Foc race 4 would be more disastrous than a cyclone or flood because we are talking regarding a threat that threatens the food security of countries closely linked to the consumption of bananas and plantains or musaceae in general. Nicaragua is preparing to correctly face the possibility of introducing this disease”stressed Raúl Rodas, Executive President of the Regional International Organization for Agricultural Health.
“Data indicate that banana production in Latin America represents 25.46% of world production, these indicators give us the high level of importance of this value chain. For this reason, many countries have been strengthening their protection systems to face the different challenges that are being presented day by day, one of them is fusarium wilt, a more devastating plague of this important food item.” said Milton Castillo FAO representative, Nicaragua.
“In Nicaragua, this exercise is essential, our data indicates that there are just over 85,000 musaceae producers in the country that by 2022 generated 18.2 million dollars in exports. One of the important elements of this drill is to continue these training processes for producers, technical services for producers to protect their assets and activate biosecurity measures on their farms.”Castillo finished.
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