Park Hyung-deok, Mayor of Dongducheon, Conducts On-site Inspection of Pine Wilt Disease Control Sites

Park Hyung-deok, mayor of Dongducheon City, visited the site of the 2024 second half pine wilt disease control target area on the 16th to receive a report on the damage situation and inspect the control status.

Mayor Park Hyung-deok of Dongducheon visited the site of the pine wilt disease control target area for the second half of 2024 on the 16th to receive a report on the damage situation and to inspect the control status. Provided by Dongducheon City

Since February this year, Dongducheon City has invested about 400 million KRW to create healthy forests free of pine wilt disease. In addition, since October, the city has been intensively promoting pine wilt disease control projects in the Habongam-dong and Anheung-dong areas.

This pine wilt disease control project, following the first half control project, conducted preventive tree injections over approximately 62 hectares targeting healthy pine trees before the emergence of the pine sawyer beetle, the vector insect of the pine wilt disease.

In particular, during this project activity, about 407 infected pine trees and other dead trees discovered during surveillance were removed.

Mayor Park Hyung-deok inspected the overall progress of the work and control promotion on site and urged the field workers to strictly comply with safety guidelines and wear protective equipment during work.

Meanwhile, Dongducheon City announced that it will complete the second half pine wilt disease control by the end of December and continue to conduct surveillance of pine trees in the area using the surveillance control team to do its best to protect Dongducheon's forests.

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