11/22/2020 – Amine for Mkheda On the watch 19:00
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The Argentine Institute for Health and Agricultural Quality (Iscamen) revealed, last weekend, that Morocco is preparing to receive about 440 million artificially sterile flies in the laboratories of Argentina.
In the same context, Argentine newspapers indicated that this deal cost the Ministry of Agriculture, Maritime Fishing, Rural Development, Water and Forests about $ 200,000 in order to create an environmental balance, protect the agricultural sector and combat harmful insects.
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The same sources indicated that sterile insects were produced in the province of Santa Rosa, 90 kilometers east of Mendoza, where Morocco is betting on these sterilized flies in order to reduce the reproduction of Mediterranean flies, where the sterilized male flies are released through the air in the regions Which the Mediterranean flies invade, in order to create competition between them and the other male flies during the mating period.
For reference, the Mediterranean fly insect had caused losses to the Moroccan economy in 2016, after the United States of America banned the import of Moroccan acids, after it seized two shipments to the two clemens that contained this insect, before the United States of America decided to resume importing citrus from Morocco late in the year. 2017.
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