Cotton producers in the municipalities that make up the Centro, Centro Leste and Sul regional centers (Campo Verde, Primavera do Leste and Rondonópolis regions, respectively), have until next Saturday (30th) to complete the destruction of cotton crop remains . In these places, the period of sanitary emptiness will begin from October 1st.
Current legislation divided the State into two large regions with regard to the cotton planting calendar and the sanitary void, a period characterized by the absence of plants with phytosanitary risk and planting restrictions.
In region 2, made up of municipalities in the North (Lucas do Rio Verde and Sorriso), Middle-North (Campo Novo do Parecis) and Northwest (Sapezal) regional centers, the destruction of cultural remains must be completed by October 14 and the empty The sanitary system will begin on the 15th. The empty period will end on December 14th. In the case of region 1, the sanitary void will end on November 30th.
These changes were defined by consensus between researchers, cotton producers, farm technicians and inspection bodies, including with the participation of Cotton Technical Groups (GTAs).
For Alexandre Schenkel, president of the Mato Grosso Association of Cotton Producers (Ampa), it is important for producers to be aware of Indea-MT's determinations to avoid greater pressure from pests such as boll weevils in the next harvest, as the sanitary void aims to eliminate the so-called “green bridge”, responsible for feeding insect pests and vectors of cotton diseases during the off-season.
At the end of last August, 47 Indea inspectors participated in training whose main objective was to qualify technicians who work in municipalities with cotton production. For one day, they met at the Training and Technological Dissemination Center of the Centro Ampa/IMAmt Regional Center, where they attended lectures by researchers and other IMAmt professionals.
The initiative to promote training, according to Thiago Augusto Tunes, coordinator of Plant Health Defense (CDSV) at Indea-MT, was taken due to “the need to standardize inspection procedures”, based on the Sedec/Indea-MT Joint Normative Instruction no. 001/2016. In addition to changing the planting and sanitary vacancy calendars, this IN introduced other changes such as the inclusion of the concept “plant with phytosanitary risk” replacing the “live plant”.
Tigueras cotton plants (plants voluntarily germinated anywhere that have not been sown) above the V3 stage and resprouted plants (ratoons) with more than four leaves per shoot or reproductive structures are considered plants with phytosanitary risk.
“Our teams are prepared and, from the 1st, they will be in the field to monitor the occurrence of plants with phytosanitary risk in Region 1. The inspection will begin in region 2, on October 15th”, says Tunes.
Source: Agrolink
