The monitoring and control of codling moth in pest-free apple producing areas of China
In order to protect the main apple producing areas of China from codling moth damage, break through technical barriers in international trade and promote the exportation of apples within China, in 2004 China' s Ministry of Agriculture began to construct pest-free apple production areas in the northwest Loess Plateau and Bohai Bay. Within eight years China established a comprehensive nationwide codling moth monitoring network; by 2010 there were a total of 8,000 monitoring sites and 133 million ha2 under surveillance. The further spread of codling moth in China was prevented by establishing sound emergency response and file management systems, combined with strengthening public awareness and enhanced quarantine and control efforts in the periphery of the pest-free area.
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