The National Agency for Food Safety publishes a list of over 100 potato producers from Belarus allowed to supply potatoes to the Moldovan market. ANSA specifies that the phytosanitary authorities in Belarus monitored the crops during the vegetation period and carried out laboratory analyses, and as a result the potatoes to be delivered are free from the bacterium Clavibacter michiganensis ssp. Sepedonicus, IPN reports.

Between September 12 - November 8 this year, upon the Moldovan phytosanitary authorities’ check at the border of the potatoes imported from the harvest of 2019, the presence of the bacterium was detected in the potatoes delivered by some producers. They are marked in red on the List presented by the Belarusian side and published by ANSA.

At the end of last month, a batch of 20 tons of potatoes, which were to arrive in Moldova from Turkey, was returned after, following the phytosanitary inspection, the inspectors found in the potato tubers the pest Phthorimaea operculella (the potato tuber moth).