About Lesson
Exclusion of the pathogen:
a) Seed inspection and certification:
- Crops grown for seed purpose are inspected periodically for the presence of diseases that are disseminated by seed.
- This practice will help in the prevention of inter and intra regional spread of seed borne diseases.
b) Plant quarantine regulation:
- These rules were aimed at the rapid destruction or eradication of barbery bush which is an alternate host of Puccinia graminis tritici.
Plant quarantine measures are of 3 types.
- Domestic quarantine:
- Rules and regulations issued prohibiting the movement of insects and diseases and their hosts from one state to another state.
- Done for Bunchy top of banana ,Banana mosaic and Wart of potato in India.
- Foreign quarantine:
- Rules and regulations issued prohibiting the import of plants, plant materials, insects and fungi into India from foreign countries by air, sea and land.
- The plant materials are to be imported only through the prescribed ports of entry.
Phytosanitary certificate:
- It is an official certificate from the country of origin, which should accompany the consignment without which the material may be refused from entry.