STRENGTHENING REGIONAL COOPERATION AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING IN PLANT PROTECTION BETWEEN THE NEAR EAST COUNTRIES DR. ABDUL-WALY ALTAHAT, MOA DR. NIDA’ SALEM, JU 2-4 Dec 2012, Cairo-Egypt

Country Plant Protection Profile in Jordan 2  General information  Plant quarantine  Pest out breaks and invasive species management  Pest management  Pesticide management

3 3 MINISTER OF AGRICULTURE G.S. Assistant for Governorates Affairs Plant Wealth Licences Division Agricultural Depts. in Governorate s Phytosanitar y Laboratory Division G ENERAL S ECRETARY (G.S.) Licences and Border Centers Department Border Centers Division Entry Points (BIPs) Plant Health and Biosafety Department Plant Wealth Laboratories Department Plant Protection Department Plant Production Department Pest Risk Analysis Division Phytosanitary Measures Division Inspection and Monitoring Division G.S. Assistant for Marketing and Information Provinces’ Agricultural Departments Prevention and Control Division Plant Production Control Division G.S. Assistant for Plant Wealth Permanent and Temporary Committees

4 National Plant Protection Organisation Structure chart Minister of Agriculture Secretary- General Assistant Secretary-General of the wealth of plant Director of Plant Protection Pesticide Registration Section Pest Control Section Control Section manufacture & import pesticides

Mission of NPPO in Jordan 5  المحافظة على سلامة العنصر النباتي في البيئة الأردنية من خلال حماية النباتات ضمن حدود المملكة من الآفات المحلية و العابرة للحدود.

6 المحصــــــــــــوـلالآفــــــــــــة الزيتونذبابة ثمار الزيتون Bactroceara olea نيرون الزيتون Phleotribus olea سل الزيتون الحمضياتذبابة ثمار البحر المتوسط Ceratitis capitata صانعة الأنفاق Phyllocnistis citrella اللوزياتذبابة ثمار البحر المتوسط Ceratitis capitata الكابنودس Capnodis tenebrionis التفاحياتحفار ساق التفاح Zeuzera pyrina العنبدودة هريان العنب Lobesia botrana البياض الدقيقي Uncinula necator نخيل البلح البندورة سوسة النخيل الحمراء الهندية Rhincophorus ferruginus حافرة انقاف البندورة التين المحاصيل الحقلية حشرة التين الشمعية Ceroplastis rusci دودة الزرع Syringopais temperatella الافات الرئيسة التي تصيب مختلف المحاصيل في الأردن

PLANT QUARANTINE 7  Interim Agriculture Law No. (44) of year  Directives of Plant Quarantine  Directives No. Zain /2 for the year, 2003  Issued vide the Articles ( 26,23,22) of the Agricultural  Act No. (44) for the year,2002  33 articles  تعليمات الحجر النباتي  تعليمات رقم ( ز \ 2 ( لسنة 2003  صادرة بموجب المواد ( ) من قانون الزراعة رقم ( 44) لسنة 2002

Infrastructure 8  Number of quarantine offices (entry points)  Number of plant quarantine officers  Number of laboratories for insect/mite samples  Number of laboratories for fungi samples  Number of laboratories for bacteria samples  Number of laboratories for virus samples

Jordanian Quarantine Pests List 9  Insects & Mites 138  Nematodes 20  Fungi 125  Bacteria 28  Virus and Viral Like 81  Weeds 21

Main Progress in Recent Year 10 اعداد مقترح الهيكل الاداري لمديرية الصحة النباتية تحديث قوائم الآفات الحجر النباتي بالصورة النهائية تحديث تعليمات الصحة النباتية بما يتفق والمعايير الدولية والاوروبية بنسبة 50% اعداد الدليل الارشادي لتشخيص الافات الحجرية ويجري حاليا ترجمته الى العربية

11 اعداد دليل اجراءات التفتيش. اعداد دليل أخذ العينات لفحوصات الصحة النباتية. تقييم وضع مختبرات الصحة النباتية من اجل تحضيرها للاعتماد

Pest Risk Analysis 12  No. of PRA completed and documented in countries Bacteria 12 Insects 8 Nematode 4 Fungi 2

Pest outbreaks and invasive species 13  Red Palm Weevil تعليمات مكافحة سوسة النخيل الصادرة بموجب المادة ( 22 ) من قانون الزراعة رقم ( 44 ) لسنة 2002  Tomato leaf minor (Tuta absoluta), 2009/2010  Control Method

PEST MANAGEMENT 14  IPM program  Almond root borer (project to improve and develop the production of almonds) (Capnodis sp.)  Integrated pest management of vegetables (IPM)  Safe use of pesticides and quality control  Strengthening the capacity for area-wide suppression of the Mediterranean fruit fly using the Sterile Insect Technique (SIT)  Early detection of disease eggs on the palm and the development of control technologies  Integrated pest management of red palm weevil

continue 15  Integrated Crop Management (ICM)  Survey of Plum Pox Virus (PPV) in Jordan  Regional Integrated Pest Management Program in the Near EAST (FFS)  مكافحة الذباب المنزلي في الأغوار ( وادي الأردن )

PESTICIDE MANAGEMENT 16 Article (21) of the temporary agricultural law No. (44) for the year 2002

The legal reference in the Ministry of Agriculture regarding pesticides  Article (21) of the temporary agricultural law No. (44) for the year  Registration, manufacture, import, trading and trading of pesticides No. z /10 for the year 2009 and its amendments z / 4 for the year  Jordan's commitment to international conventions and the implementation of the texts of the provisions of these agreements prevail over domestic laws, the Rotterdam Convention, Stockholm Convention, Basel Convention and Montreal.  Bilateral agreements which respect the local laws of the countries.

International References to deal with pesticides  International Code of Conduct for the distribution of pesticides  Technical specifications of the Food and Agriculture Organization of agricultural pesticides.  Technical specifications of the WHO public health pesticides  Jordan‘s reference for MRL is Codex MRL and in the absence of coverage of any substance adopt EU MRL.

Quantities of pesticides manufactured locally for the domestic market and export in 2010 Quantity manufactured for the domestic market / kg or L Quantity manufactured for export / kg or liter Pesticide Type Insecticides Fungicides Herbicides Accarcides Nematicides Meniral Oils Public Health Insecticides Rodenticides Molascides Seeds Sterilants Dispersing & Sticking Agents Household Pesticides Total

Quantity of pesticides imported in 2010 classified by type of ​​ the pest Quantity of Imported pesticidesPesticide Type Fungicides Insecticides Herbicides 1000Fungi+Insecticides Public Health Insecticides Accaricides 11200Bactricides 5810Rodenticdes Meniral Oils 18972Adhesives Fumigant pesticides Household Pesticides Total

21  Number of restricted-use pesticides 20 (a.i)  Number of banned pesticides 41(a.i)

Number of establishments that manufacture, import and trading of pesticides For 2010 #Party Name 14 Licensed Local factories 125 Companies licensed to import pesticides 301 Shops handling pesticides 46 Number of countries, pesticides imported from

Number of pesticides registered Total number of pesticides registered with the Ministry of Agriculture 1404 trade name includes 290 active ingredient

Displays the registry file to the pesticide registration Committee ( the committee comprises 12 members), as follows : - 1- Director of Plant Protection/ Head of the Committee. 2- Director of Plant Protection Laboratories. 3 - Head of pesticide registration section/ Member and Reporter of the Committee. 4- A representative from the Ministry of Health.

5- Representative of the National Center for Agricultural Research and Technology Transfer 6- A representative from the Ministry of the Environment 7- A representative of the Royal Scientific Society Laboratories 8- A representative of the Jordanian Universities / College of Agriculture 9- A representative of the Merchants Association and producers of agricultural materials (private sector)

10 - A representative of the owners of factories producing pesticides (private sector) 11- Head of Manufacturing, Importing & Controlling Pesticides Section from MOA 12- A representative of the Agricultural Engineers Association * In addition to the secretary of the pesticide registration

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