Damascus-SANA
The Ministry of Agriculture and Agrarian Reform refused to enter 14 plant consignments coming to Syria for violating plant quarantine regulations this year.
The Director of Plant Protection at the Ministry of Agriculture, Dr. Iyad Muhammad Hamad, confirmed that 14 consignments weighing 389.57 tons were rejected.
For violating plant quarantine regulations, between January and October of this year.
Muhammad stated in a statement to SANA that the plant quarantine centers at the border crossings detected and examined 26,859 outgoing consignments weighing 547,218 tons, and 4,162 incoming consignments weighing 3,959,852 tons, while the number of transit consignments reached 2,927, weighing 211,848 tons, of various types of agricultural consignments of plant and plant products.
Muhammad explained that plant quarantine is the first line of defense to protect and prevent plants from agricultural pests, and it is a preventive measure that aims to protect plant wealth from the risk of pest infection from outside the country, indicating that quarantine requires all plant consignments to be subject to “plants and plant products” and any materials Other phytosanitary regulations for plant quarantine procedures and their conformity with applicable requirements, whether for outgoing, incoming or transit consignments.
Ghusoub Abboud
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