Bacterial blight has been detected in a home garden in the Eleja parish of the Jelgava region, according to a report from the State Plant Protection Service (VAAD) in the official publication Latvijas Vēstnesis.
A buffer zone has been established within a radius of three kilometers around the relevant private farm in connection with the detected bacterial burn.
During the flowering period of plants that are hosts to fire blight (pear, apple, rowan and other plants) and at least two weeks after the end of their flowering, it is prohibited to move bee hives from the fire blight buffer zone and to bring bee hives into the fire blight buffer zone.
Fire blight is a very dangerous disease of fruit trees, which can destroy up to 80% of the orchard planting. Apple trees, pears, rowan, quince, etc. can be infected.
Typical signs of the disease are wrinkled, brown and black leaves that cling to the branches but look scorched. Flowers and fruits wilt, wrinkle, and turn dark, but do not fall and cling to the plant. Fire blight starts from flowers or branches, from which the bacteria migrate to larger branches and spread further to the trunk. Young shoots of branches turn brown, become necrotic, and the ends of branches often bend like a hook. The damaged bark of large branches swells and cracks.
VAAD is a state institution of direct management, established in 1998, whose purpose is to ensure the long-term use, protection and supervision of the circulation of cultivated plants and forest resources in order to preserve their biological diversity, promote public safety and protect the environment from possible pollution caused by plant protection products and fertilizers, create the prerequisites for farmers to have access to whole and high-quality propagation material, as well as to increase the productivity and competitiveness of agriculture.
Source: www.gorod.lv
