The packing plant RANS S.A.S. will export Colombian pitahaya to Chile Bogotá, November 01, 2019. As a result of the work carried out since 2004 between the Agricultural and Livestock Service, SAG, of Chile, and the Colombian Agricultural and Livestock Institute, ICA, with the objective of obtaining permits to export pitahaya to this market, the “RANS SAS” packing and exporting plant will be able to send fresh yellow pitahaya with hot steam quarantine treatment. see more
Americas Congress on Fruit Flies. Third Announcement The Colombian Agricultural Institute (ICA) and the Working Group on Fruit Flies of the Western Hemisphere (TWWH), with the support of the Colombian Horticultural Association (ASOHOFRUCOL) - National Fund for Fruit and Vegetable Development and the Colombian Entomology Society (SOCOLEN), as a preamble to the celebration of the International Year of Plant Health, are pleased to expand information regarding the Americas Congress on Fruit Flies, in the framework of the 10th Meeting of the Working Group on Fruit Flies of the Western Hemisphere. see more
“The work that the ICA has done in these three months to contain and control the wilt by Fusarium has been fantastic”: Rhiannon Evans, Australian expert Bogotá, October 2, 2019. “Since 2015 I have been involved in the issue of Wilt by Fusarium Tropical Race 4. We have experience in this field and, based on it, I can say that the work that ICA has done in these three months to contain and controlling the disease has been fantastic”, said Rhiannon Evans, during the regional workshop that took place in Bogotá”. see more
October starts with an important seizure of agricultural and livestock products of contraband in border areas Bogota, October 2, 2019. Operattions against agricultural smuggling in the different border areas continue. In the beginnning of October, the authorities managed to seize about $160 million COP in products of the countryside that were intended to entero or transport illegally through the national territory. see more