Strengthen the management of major plant epidemic situation and make every effort to ensure the safety of agricultural production

A few days ago, the Ministry of Agriculture held an on-the-spot meeting on the interception, prevention and control of major plant epidemics in Ganzhou City, Jiangxi Province, to summarize and exchange the effectiveness and experience of plant quarantine during the 12th five-year Plan, and to analyze in depth the current situation of plant quarantine. Research and deployment of the "13th five-year" plant quarantine work.

The meeting held that plant quarantine work has achieved remarkable results in the past five years, monitoring and discovering a number of newly introduced agricultural plant epidemics such as beet cyst nematode, successfully intercepting the spread of a number of major plant epidemics such as potato beetles, effectively controlling the occurrence and harm of a number of major plant epidemics such as apple bark moths, and completely eradicating a number of new or sporadic major plant epidemics such as banana perforated nematodes.

The meeting pointed out that in accordance with the overall requirements of "comprehensive measures and curing both the symptoms and the root causes", efforts should be made to strengthen surveillance and investigation, interception, prevention and control, and quarantine supervision, so as to speed up the "four changes" in epidemic prevention and control. that is, the main body of prevention and control should change from territorial management to "territorial responsibility and regional cooperation", and the focus of prevention and control should be changed from newly introduced areas to joint prevention and control of "incoming areas, interception zones and source areas". The mode of prevention and control has changed from step-by-step control to comprehensive management in the whole process of "epidemic area control, gate interception, quarantine supervision, and emergency disposal", and quarantine law enforcement has changed from routine law enforcement to the combination of "daily law enforcement, joint law enforcement, and special law enforcement". Strive to reach the end of the 13th five-year Plan to achieve "new epidemics do not spread rapidly, existing epidemics do not break out into disasters, and sporadic epidemics are basically eradicated."

The meeting demanded that agricultural departments and phytosanitary organs at all levels should make clear their objectives, increase investment, and strengthen measures to effectively curb the spread of major epidemic diseases. First, strengthen the surveillance and investigation of the epidemic situation. Build an epidemic monitoring network system covering the whole country, develop and equip modern monitoring facilities and equipment, speed up the construction of quarantine information system, and achieve early detection, early report, and early disposal. The second is to implement regional management of the epidemic. Build 100 national epidemic prevention and control demonstration areas in new outbreak areas, re-outbreak areas and interception key channels, assemble integrated key technical models for prevention and control, and improve the scientificalness and effectiveness of prevention and control. The third is to promote the innovation of quarantine supervision. Give prominence to seed and seedling quarantine, transportation quarantine and market supervision, implement unified national numbering of plant quarantine certificates, step up verification, and disclose violation information to the public. Fourth, strengthen the support and guarantee of science and technology. Set up a plant quarantine expert guidance group to carry out research on the key technologies of hazard mechanism, blockade and extermination, pest control and comprehensive management, and speed up the transformation of practical achievements. At the same time, efforts should be made to win multi-party support, improve quarantine support policies, strengthen quarantine cooperation at home and abroad, consolidate the foundation of institutional teams, and promote the sustainable management of agricultural plant epidemics.