Quintana Roo's State Plant Health Committee (Cesaveqroo) established a new way to fight the HLB virus in citrus, better known as the yellow dragon, through simultaneous fumigations performed and coordinated with health committees of the neighboring states of Yucatan and Campeche.
Evaristo Gomez Dias, president of Cesaveqroo, said that in previous years they would fumigate commercial and backyard crops to halt the spread of the plague obtaining good results. Starting 2015, they started performing coordinated applications in 1,800 hectares of selected business areas.
"We worked this surface internally to suppress the insect and reduce the disease's progression. Our approach now is that we coordinate with the states of Yucatan and Campeche so that these entities simultaneously work on the periphery, close to their demarcations, to prevent the psyllid from migrating," he said.
He said this campaign had been successful at the national level and that there was a considerable reduction in bugs at the local level. As a result,the Cesaveqroo will continue to work to control the plague so it won't affect the entity's commercial lime crops, and other species of citrus.
Gomez Dias said that, unfortunately, State Government authorities hadn't deposited this year's more than five million pesos budget funds yet, so the committee was currently facing operational problems.
They will demand resources
According to comments in social networks, the workers from Cesaveqroo plan to carry out a demonstration at the government palace to demand the authorities release resources. In the past four years the budget has always been delayed, which in turn generates a delay in payroll.
Source - freshplaza.com
