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Sex pheromones were used to monitor adult populations of the fall armyworm.
Data on occurrences and localities of the fall armyworm were collected through the crop natural disaster notification system.
japonicus (natural egg parasitoids of the stink bug), and offered lectures and demonstrations. The COA also designated collective chemical-pesticide prevention periods for three zones (Kaohsiung- Pingtung, Yunlin-Chiayi-Tainan, and Taichung-Changhua-Nantou-Miaoli), strengthening cooperative prevention across cities and counties. We also notified relevant ministries and agencies to simultaneously promote relevant measures to raise the overall effectiveness of prevention work.
(7) Preventing invasion by major diseases and pests from abroad
The COA amended the quarantine requirements for the importation of animals, plants, and their products in response to international epidemic conditions. We
Annual Report 2019 Council of Agriculture, Executive Yuan
conducted quarantine inspection on 210,846 batches of plants and their products. Our 50 quarantine detector-dog teams intercepted over 29,000 batches of illegal agricultural products, totaling 15.71 metric tons. Also, over the course of 2019 the COA destroyed 115 smuggled live animals (including 24 gerbils, three live rats, 21 chinchillas, two South African springhares, four Octodontidae rodents, five meerkats, eight cats, and 48 pigeons), 36 smuggled fertilized pigeon eggs, and 9,299 kilograms of smuggled livestock and poultry products (including 3,692 kg of ham, 1.2 kg of cured pork, 210.8 kg of deer antler, 5,190 kg of dog and cat food, and 205 kg of foie gras).
The COA dispatched staff to Peru to conduct verification of production sites and the effectiveness of the proposed quarantine treatment for blueberries. We also conducted our annual quarantine audits in production areas in the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Germany, Poland, Italy, Chile, and South Africa (for apples), Japan and Korea (for fresh fruits that are host to the peach fruit moth), Thailand (for betelnuts and mangosteen), Honduras (for muskmelons), mainland China and Japan (for pear scions), the Netherlands and Chile (for lily bulbs), the Netherlands (for anthurium nursery stock), and Australia (for carrots). In addition, the COA dispatched staff to the US, Spain, Eswatini, Mexico, Canada, and Nicaragua to conduct audits of meat products.
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