Northern Ireland Lifts Potato Wart Disease Restrictions
August 24, 2012| |
Northern Ireland's Department of Agriculture and Rural Development (DARD) Minister Michelle O'Neill announced the lifting of Potato Wart Disease restrictions in various farmland in the country. Potato Wart Disease is caused by the fungus Synchytrium endobioticum, listed under European Commission Plant Health legislation as a quarantine organism. The pathogen is notable due to resting spore cases that can remain viable in the soil for at least 30 years.
The lifting of restrictions, according to DARD is the culmination of a 10-year plan of systematic sampling and testing of all land which were identified to have an outbreak of Potato Wart Disease in the country. From 2000 to 2011, inspectors from DARD implemented the plan, which involved extensive soil sampling and the planting of tubers under the guidance of Plant Pathologists from the Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute (AFBI). No viable wart has been found in any of the 750 local fields from over 600 local townlands under test and land previously infected is now disease free.
See DARD's news release at http://www.northernireland.gov.uk/index/media-centre/news-departments/news-dard/news-dard-140812-oneill-announces-lifting.htm.
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