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The hall of the Cultural Center completed its capacity Mazarrón Tuesday on the occasion of the Technical Meeting convened to report on how to deal with the scourge of whitefly.
More than 200 farmers and technicians of Mazarrón and surrounding municipalities attended this motivated by concern about the havoc done in their crops one of the major pests that exist today in the Murcian countryside encounter.
The conference was inaugurated by the Director General of Agriculture, Carmen Teodora Morales who attended the ceremony together with the Councillor for Agriculture of the City of Mazarrón, Maria Isabel Lopez, Pedro Marin, manager of banking companies Cajamar Caja Rural and Bernardo Rubio , technical manager of Coexma.
Isabel Maria Lopez stressed the importance of this day because of the need to raise local farmers to tackling the plague.
For the CEO, it is important that farmers take measures "personal and pools to prevent crops being abandoned, as this makes reservoir of the pest and harms nearby productions."
Morales recalled that the plague of whiteflies can be a limiting factor to tackle informing, raising awareness and taking the right steps.
Juan Carlos Gázquez, the Las Palmerillas Station of the Cajamar Foundation, said the whitefly is a plague already known by the Murcian farmer who has developed new and dangerous viruses, such as virus New Delhi, difficult to control.
Warmer winters of recent years may be behind the surge in cases, says Gázquez.
Mazarrón gathered in the largest regional experts to discuss this issue, preventive measures, of resistance to insecticides and existing methods of control.
Jose Tomas Gallego, municipal technician of the City of Mazarrón, has coordinated a day that has counted among its organizers to the Cooperative Exporters Mazarrón (COEXMA).
Source: Ayuntamiento de Mazarrón
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