Emergency notice of Shandong Province on strengthening the Surveillance and Prevention and Control of Wheat Stripe Rust

Municipal Agricultural Bureaus (Agricultural Committees):

Stripe rust of wheat is a serious epidemic disease transmitted by high altitude airflow. It has the characteristics of strong paroxysmal, fast spreading, difficult monitoring and heavy damage loss. This year, wheat stripe rust occurred early, widely and seriously in China. Recently, the disease has spread widely and rapidly in the main wheat producing areas in the east, reaching Heze in our province to the north and Changzhou in Jiangsu to the east. The speed of the disease spreading northward and eastward has obviously accelerated, and the threat to wheat safety in Huanghuai and North China wheat areas has increased. Stripe rust was discovered in Dongming County and Chengwu County of Heze City on April 20,14 days earlier than last year. The occurrence of wheat stripe rust is expected to be significantly heavier this year than last year and recent years. In order to grasp the occurrence dynamics of stripe rust in time and effectively control the epidemic spread of disasters, the urgent notice is as follows:

I. Intensify monitoring efforts and closely grasp the occurrence situation

All localities should take immediate action to carry out a general survey of wheat stripe rust, find out the scope of occurrence and determine the area of diseased fields. Carry out "detection with medicine", find a point, control a piece, timely blockade control the disease center, strictly prevent the spread of epidemic disease. Relevant information shall be reported to the local government and superior competent department in time. The county (city, district) where stripe rust has been found shall implement daily newspaper system, and the latest occurrence and prevention trends of stripe rust shall be reported to the provincial plant protection station (email address: zbzcbz@163.com) before 4 p.m. every day until the disease is relieved.

II. Strengthen organizational leadership and implement emergency disaster prevention and mitigation measures

Once wheat stripe rust spreads, losses are severe. All levels should attach great importance to it, establish awareness of disaster prevention and reduction, strengthen leadership of emergency prevention and control organizations, clarify prevention and control responsibilities, and implement prevention and control tasks. In places where wheat stripe rust has occurred, pesticides and instruments for prevention and control shall be implemented as soon as possible, the masses shall be mobilized to actively prevent and control it, specialized plant protection service organizations shall be organized to implement unified prevention and control, and efforts shall be made to control the damage of stripe rust in the initial stage.

III. Scientific guidance on prevention and control and implementation of key technical measures

All localities should actively publicize the symptoms, hazards and prevention and control techniques of wheat stripe rust by using various effective media, hold technical lectures, transfer competent professional and technical personnel to form technical guidance groups, go deep into the fields to guide the prevention and control work, and ensure the prevention and control effect.

Contact: Ji Guoqiang

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