Actions are initiated to save the palms of the median strip

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The spraying of agrochemicals has started to save the palm trees found in the central median of highway 200, which are affected by a fungus that causes them to dry, reported Gonzalo Calderón Preciado, director of Rural Development in Banderas Bay.

He said that this problem has caused the death of 25 palm trees that were not taken care for in time, but they have established control mechanisms and with the work done they will be able to rescue the palms, because also in this process they are going to fertilize them, he reported.

He said that it was specialized people who failed to detect the problem and that these palms have nothing to do with the problem of the palm weevil.

Then he explained that the presence of the Red Palm Mite is located in the area of Nuevo Vallarta, the Marina and Villas Varadero, which is why the State Plant Health Committee began to fumigate and the Rural Development Directorate removes the palm leaves from trees, pokes them and fits them in a bag to keep the pest in the area and thus, by not having plant material, it dies in a month.

He said that it is forbidden that a palm leaf comes out of Nuevo Vallarta; then he announced that the transfer of palms from other states is one of the major problems faced by the municipality together with not installing surveillance and checkpoints (S&C) to prevent mobilization which currently is unchecked.

The budget for implementing this as a municipality, he said there is no such, however, there is staff support, because the resources have to come from the federal government and it is unknown how much is available for that, although the Plant Health Committee of the State is also part of the federation he said, after assuring that there are resources to deal and work with the emergency.

Finally, he said that the State Committee has spoken to its counterparts from Jalisco, so that they also take action. He stressed that nurseries also have a lot to do with it because palms are mobilized without permits and there is were they are trying to make people aware; meanwhile, two nurseries have already been found with the Red Palm Mite in the community of Jarretaderas and he said that they have already been quarantined so that the plague does not spread.

[readon1 url="http://www.periodicoexpress.com.mx/nota.php?id=279189"]Source: Periódico Express de Nayarit Translated by Rene Tripp[/readon1]