Eradication of cocoa pod borer from Australia
- Publication Date
- Tue, 21 Jan 2014, 00:00
- Last Updated
- June 30, 2015, 6:22 a.m.
- Report Number
- AUS-47/4
- Country
- Australia
- Pest Id
- Conopomorpha cramerella - (AROCCR)
- Report Status
- Final
- Hosts
- Cocoa plants (Theobroma cacao)
- Pest Status (old values from ISPM 8 -1998 )
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- Absent: pest eradicated
- Pest Status (ISPM 8 - 2021)
-
- Absent: pest eradicated
- Geographical Distribution
- Absent
- Summary
Cocoa pod borer was detected in Far North Queensland in 2011. Following a successful eradication program, the pest is no longer present.
- Danger
- Eradication was declared on 14 January 2014.
- Contact for info
- Australian Chief Plant Protection Officer Australian Government Department of Agriculture, GPO Box 858 Canberra ACT 2601 Australia [email protected]
- Report files
- Website
- http://www.dpi.qld.gov.au/4790_20719.htm
- Issue keywords
- Incursion
- Commodity keywords