In Tucumán and Catamarca, the healing service installed new traps in blueberry plantings.

The National Health Service and Food Quality (SENASA) has installed 24 new traps blueberry plantation locations Famailla, Monteros, Chichester and La Cocha, Tucumán and Catamarca Alijilán ptovincia, under preventive actions pest monitoring Lobesia botrana.

Professional monitoreadores South Central Regional biweekly NOA SENASA verify the operation and status of their traps, and so far the monitoring results are satisfactory since no specimens suspected plague were detected.

At the same time, the national body develops awareness activities by providing training and information on the prevention and pest risks to producers, technicians, gendarmerie, government officials and professionals.

Lobesia botrana is a moth whose primary host is the vine, causing significant production losses, and caused indirect economic damage through regulations imposed by importing countries in international trade.