Database of Quarentine Plagues Associated to Cultures Relevant to Brazilian Agri-Business and the Country's Phytosanitary Defense
Database of Quarentine Plagues Associated to Cultures Relevant to Brazilian Agri-Business and the Country's Phytosanitary Defense
The goal of this project is to develop an integrated database system for the Department of Vegetal Sanity (DSV), the Secretary of Agriculture and Stockbreeding Defense of the Agriculture, Stockbreeding and Provision (Mapa), hoping to facilitate processes of risk analysis of plagues that attack vegetable products. The vegetable product imports which can be potential spreaders of plagues is normatized by the International Plant Protection Convention (IPPC), which is linked to the Committee of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures (SPS) of the World Trade Organization (WTO). The Plague Risk Analysis (PRA) are legal procedures approved by all of the IPPC members, and nationally executed by the country's National Organization of Phytosanitary Protection. The project has the following goals: to understand the risks of introduction to dangerous plagues associated to plant product imports, and to indicate measures to decrease risk to an acceptable level, considering adequate levels of safety adopted by the country. This is an important action to prevent the entrance of exotic plagues which might cause economical damage and compromise the sanity of some vegetable product cultivated in Brazilian territory, in addition to favoring the conquest of new markets. The increase in external commerce transactions has created a great demand for these analysis. Thusly, the computerized management of data aims to facilitate the elaboration of PRAs, in addition to facilitating the upgrading and consultation to information. The systems Plague Database and WikiPlagues, which result from this project, manage the acquired data, worldwide, of plagues associated to the most important cultures of interest to the Brazilian agri-business. The Plague Database manages data about cataloging methods, such as plagues' scientific names, its hosts, countries in which they occur, and affected vegetable parts. WikiPlagues, though, is a module which integrates the system , it has detailed information cards regarding plagues with quarentine potential, including aspects of biology, inspection and detection, impacts and measures of control and mitigation. Wiki uses edit tools called MediaWiki which allows collective work between the agents and researchers linked to the area of phytosanitary protection in the country. The project received financial support from the CT-Agro (Agri-business Sectorial Fund), which handed over resources by means of the National Council of Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq), which has also supported other researches in this theme conducted by various public institutions which integrate a Network of Risk Analysis of Plagues focused on the acquisition of information regarding plagues classified by culture group.
Ecosystem: Amazonic, Extreme South, Atlantic Forest, Semi-mixed and seasonal forests, Mid-North, Pantanal, Caatinga Region and Mixed forests, Cerrados Region
Status: Completed Start date: Thu Apr 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2010 Conclusion date: Sat Aug 31 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2013
Head Unit: Embrapa Digital Agriculture
Project leader: Carlos Alberto Alves Meira
Contact: carlos.meira@embrapa.br