Pohang City Issues Administrative Order for Preemptive Control of 'Fruit Fire Blight' Disease

Advance Notice of Reduction in Compensation for Farms Failing to Comply with Administrative Orders

A quarantine officer from Pohang City is inspecting an orchard farm for the occurrence of 'fire blight'.

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Choi Jae-ho] Pohang City issued an 'administrative order' on the 7th to implement preemptive control measures to block the spread of 'fire blight,' following its first occurrence in Andong City within Gyeongbuk Province.

Accordingly, fruit farmers must comply with mandatory orchard management record-keeping, frequent disinfection and record management of tools and equipment, mandatory record-keeping for seedling management, restrictions on visits by farmers from infected orchards to non-infected orchards, prohibition of residue movement, management of overwintering sites of the disease, and reinforcement of fire blight prevention and surveillance.

Fire blight is a bacterial disease that causes plant tissues to blacken or turn red and wither as if burned by fire, spreading rapidly. It was first detected in Gyeongbuk Province on the 4th in Andong.

Pohang City is operating a fire blight response situation room with the head of the Agricultural Technology Center as the director, conducting emergency surveillance of local fruit farmers, strengthening activities of plant quarantine inspectors, and enhancing public awareness. Failure to comply with the administrative order may result in a reduction of compensation for losses caused by fire blight.

Kim Geuk-han, head of the Agricultural Technology Center, emphasized, "We ask fruit farmers to refrain from visiting fire blight outbreak areas and high-risk zones, and to actively cooperate by thoroughly implementing the measures stipulated in the administrative order issued on the 7th to prevent the occurrence of fire blight in our city."

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