It is one of the most important pests for fruit production in Argentina due to the damage it produces in the fruit and the associated economic losses.

There are more than 300 fruit fly host fruits, among which include blueberry, cherry, plum, damask, peach, raspberry, guava, fig, kiwi, tangerine, orange, mango, apple, passion fruit, quince, nectarine, medlar , avocado, papaya, pear, grapefruit, pepper, grape, among others.

It is prohibited the entry of fruit to certain places, because, even without noticing it, you can be transporting an infested fruit (with eggs or larvae of the plague) and putting at risk the phytosanitary status of protected areas and the fruit production of all a region.

If you have a fruit tree in your home, collect all the fruit from your tree and enter the one you will not consume at a depth of not less than 30 centimeters, then cover with quicklime. In addition, it is important to collaborate with the official controls of the National Control Program in protected areas.

Source: Senasa

Our country is regionalized in the NOA, Northwest Zone, composed of Jujuy, Salta, Tucuman and Catamarca. And the NEA Zone, composed of Misiones, Formosa, Chaco, Corrientes, Entre Ríos and North of the Province of Buenos Aires.

HLB is the most dangerous and destructive disease that kills citrus. It is produced by a bacterium classified as «annoying» called Candidatus liberibacter associated with three species, with the Asiatic form being the most aggressive. This bacterium is very difficult to study since it does not admit its isolation in the laboratory and must be analyzed in the field.

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The Main Markets currently are Russia, The European Union, Canada, Southeast Asia and Arab Countries. Recently, the markets of Brazil, Mexico and the United States were opened for lemons.

The main derivatives are Frozen Concentrated Juices, Essential Lemon Oils, Frozen Pulp and Dehydrated Peel.

Due to the demands of the fruit-buying markets, the producers and sanitary authorities of Argentina implemented a traceability system in 2005 within the framework of the Citrus Export Certification Program to the European Union and other markets. The objective of the Program is to guarantee that the fresh citrus fruit produced in the country complies with the phytosanitary requirements established in the regulations of the European Union and other markets. For this purpose, it is compulsory to adopt certain phytosanitary measures in the successive stages of the crop and regulates the procedure in the packing plants and in port for the destinations with which fresh citrus fruit is sold. After several years of planning and articulation with citrus farms and packing plants, the system is operational. All the crops that leave the farms have complete information about the treatment received, who produced it, where, and the pallets that are shipped from the packing plants have information about the contents of the boxes or containers.

The information system on citrus traceability (SITC) is directly reported from the packing plants. The sanitary authority (SENASA) can control in port, given that the SITC operates in the global network. In this way, importers can know, through free access to the site, who transported, who exported, who dispatched, who produced, in what establishment and from which batch the citrus fruit that was purchased originated.

The information system allows to know the whole process of citrus production, from the field to the final destination, and allows the Argentine fruit to comply visibly with international standards and requirements.

Source: CITRICULTURA, Value chain study