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USDA releases 2016 plant protection and Quarantine annual report
Apr. 25, 2017
The Animal and Plant Health Inspection of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has released its Plant Protection and Quarantine (PPQ)’s 2016 Annual report.
APHIS’ Plant Protection and Quarantine (PPQ) program safeguards U.S. agriculture and natural resources against the entry, establishment, and spread of economically and environmentally significant pests, and facilitates the safe trade of agricultural products.
According to PPQ, they not only eradicated 10 fruit fly outbreaks, but also achieved 4 years with zero detections of pink bollworm, moving us one step closer to eradicating this pest from all commercial cotton-growing areas of the continental United States. And when the U.S. corn industry faced the first-ever detection of bacterial leaf streak (Xanthomonas vasicular pv vasculorum), they devised a practical and scientific approach to manage the disease and protect valuable export markets. PPQ also reports it is achieving one of the agency’s top 10 goals: eliminating the European grapevine moth (EGVM) from the United States. EGVM made that list because it threatened California’s $4 billion grape crop and jeopardized valuable export markets for U.S. grapes as well as stone fruit, another EGVM host.
On the world stage, PPQ helped U.S. agriculture thrive in the global marketplace. It worked closely with international trading partners to develop and promote science-based standards, helping to create a safe, fair, and predictable agricultural trade system that minimizes the spread of invasive plant pests and diseases. They reached critical plant health agreements and resolved plant health barriers to trade, which sustained and expanded U.S. export markets valued at more than $4 billion. And, they helped U.S. producers meet foreign market access requirements and certified the health of more than 650,000 exports, facilitating the export of U.S. commodities valued at $134.8 billion, securing economic opportunities for U.S. products abroad.
Source: USDA
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