(MENAFN – Gulf Times) The Ministry of Municipality and Environment (MME) represented by the Agricultural Quarantine Offices have inspected 5,611 imported consignments, weighing 135,637 tonnes, from various types of imported consignments, plant products and production inputs in January across the different customs points.
The Quarantine Offices destroyed 31 agricultural consignments weighing 10 tonnes for violating the agricultural quarantine law and for infection with stone or non-stone lesions by large proportions.
The agricultural quarantine is the first line of defense for protection from agricultural infections. The preventive procedure aims to protect the country’s agricultural wealth from foreign-originated pests.
It also provides that all plants, agricultural products and any other materials shall be subject to phytosanitary regulations for its procedures and to ensure that other agricultural production inputs are in conformity with the conditions and specifications.
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