Plant industries have invested significant resources into developing pest resistant plant varieties, implementing integrated pest management strategies and negotiating area freedom protocols to enhance market access. This has resulted in production systems that are economically competitive and environmentally sustainable.
However these systems remain fragile in the face of risks posed by emergency plant pests and it is critical that appropriate tools are available to ensure that the impact of any incursion response is minimised
Goal
Reduced economic and social impact from incursions of emergency plant pests through new control, risk mitigation and recovery strategies.
Actions
- Develop tools to underpin optimal response strategies, area freedom protocols and pre-emptive crop management strategies, including the capacity to evaluate and validate incursion response strategies through predictive simulation systems.
- Develop capacity to respond to new virulence in emergency plant pests.
- Develop enhanced dis-infestation technologies for both imported and exported plant produce.
- Develop scientifically validated hygiene science strategies for incursion response.
- Develop novel control/containment/recovery strategies.
Benefits
- Improved assessment of the socio-economic impact of emergency plant pest incursions.
- Simulation tools to better manage emergency plant pest incursions.
- Identification of virulent biotypes to make better decisions for management of emergency plant pests.
- Improved dis-infestation science to increase safe imports and exports of plant products.
- Better crop destruction technologies that reduce the unnecessary loss of crops while controlling emergency plant pests.
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