A3B-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, February 3,2001
Moratorium
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“We need the help of every
one in the quarantine zone
backyard fruit growers, home
owners, renters, businesses, and
commercial growers to help
eradicate this fruit tree disease
so that the huge economic losses
being experienced by the fruit
industry are not in vain,” Hayes
said.
“Plum pox virus is an ex
tremely serious threat to the
stone fruit industry of Pennsyl
vania, and it is our goal at the
Department of Agriculture to
help lead the fight to eradicate
this virus. The planting of plum
pox virus-susceptible trees and
shrubs anywhere in the quaran
tine area would make additional
host material available for virus
infection and jeopardize the op
portunity to eradicate the
virus.”
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The moratorium on planting
strengthens the quarantine by
stopping all planting of poten
tial hosts in the quarantine area
and will help the Department of
Agriculture conduct a more ef
fective survey in locating in
fected trees.
Detection of the plum pox
virus in trees can take years. The
survey will need to continue for
several years to make sure that
trees testing negative last year
are not actually harboring the
virus. The addition of more trees
during this process complicates
the survey, adds cost, and then
adds to the number of times
property owners must be con
tacted by surveyors.
The moratorium will help
speed the lifting of the quaran
tine by helping the common
wealth to reach plum pox-free
status. Once that goal is
reached, growers and homeown
ers can resume planting of stone
fruit trees without the threat of
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Commercial growers have de
stroyed nearly 900 acres of in
fected and exposed trees to help
eradicate the plum pox virus.
Discovered in Adams County
in September 1999, the Pennsyl
vania Department of Agricul
ture conducted extensive
surveys and tests to establish a
quarantine area.
Plum pox virus causes a dis
ease in stone fruit, such as
peaches, nectarines, plums,
apricots, and related ornamen
tal trees in the genus Primus.
These varieties and hybrids are
hosts of the virus strain present
in Pennsylvania. Other hosts in
clude many ornamental plants
such as the purple leaf plum,
sand cherry, flowering almond,
and flowering peach.
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infected to healthy trees. This
viral disease, known as sharka.
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where it occurs. Sharka does not
have an effect on animals or
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orchards across the common
wealth and other fruit-growing
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Surveys also were conducted for
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to a relatively small area in the
northern part of Adams County
and across the border in
Cumberland County, establish
ing the plum pox virus quaran
tine zone. The quarantine
prohibits the movement of sus
ceptible trees and propagation
material within or out of the
quarantine area.
Pennsylvania has invested
more than $5.1 million to eradi
cate the plum pox virus and in
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