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Protection against South American leaf blight of rubber in Asia and the Pacific region

Year of publication 2011

Pages 100

Author Agriculture Group

Product type Book (stand-alone)

Category Technical book

Series title RAP Publication

Series number 1020-6221|1014-2789|18194591|0428-9560

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) Rubber is an important cash crop in a number of countries in Asia and the Pacific region. Current total global production of natural rubber is about 9 million tonnes. Over 90 percent of that amount is produced in Asia-Pacific. South American leaf blight (SALB) is a fungal disease of rubber trees. Up to now the disease has been restricted to South and Central America where it has inhibited natural rubber production on a commercial scale. So far, use of modern systemic fungicides and improved appl ication techniques have failed to prevent large scale losses and dieback of trees. Its potential to affect other regions rises with every transcontinental airline connection that directly links tropical regions. The need to develop quarantine measures against the disease is urgent. This publication is a compilation of four separate documents intended as a practical reference tool for national plant organizations, especially for plant quarantine officials, in rubber growing countries in Asia and the Pacific. It was prepared as a set of reference materials to improve phytosanitary measures and safeguard against the incursion of South American leaf blight of rubber into countries in the region, and is one of the many measures that the Asia and Pacific Plant Protection Commission has put in place to prevent SALB disease in the region.

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