کنکاشی در آفات و بیماری‌های قرنطینه محصولات صادراتی بندر شهید باهنر بندرعباس

The problem of quarantine pests and diseases is one of the most important challenges in the import and export of agricultural products. To this end, and in order to prevent the entry of quarantine pests and diseases to new areas, imported and exported products should be carefully checked with accurate laboratory equipment to highly restrict their risks. One of the places where agricultural products are checked for quarantine pests and diseases is the plant quarantine units at customs. The aim of this study was to investigate the pests and diseases of agricultural products exported from Iran to the United Arab Emirates in the plant quarantine unit of Shahid Bahonar port in Bandar Abbas. Sampling was performed according to the amount and weight of cargo from export shipments and the samples were placed in plastic bags and special baskets. The samples were transferred to the laboratory of the Persian Gulf Plain Clinic to identify the quarantine pests and diseases (final approval of the samples was done in the Plant Protection Research Department, Hormozgan Agricultural and Natural Resources Research and Education Center). Accordingly, the following pests and diseases were identified in the studied samples as quarantine organisms: tomato spotted wilt virus on tomato and pepper, tomato brown rugose virus on tomato, tomato mosaic virus on tomato and watermelon, root-knot nematode on potatoes, citrus bacterial canker on orange, South American tomato pinworm on tomato, kiwi mealybug on kiwi and khapra beetle. Among the above-mentioned pests and diseases, the most common was kiwi mealybug, which sometimes caused the lack of licenses to export this product. The presence of diseases such as tomato brown rugose virus that if these diseases are not properly managed both in greenhouses and in quarantine units, we are likely to lose important markets in the target countries in the future.