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Government of India Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare Department of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare Directorate of Plant Protection, Quarantine & Storage
Integrated Pest Management (IPM) is designed to provide long-term management of pests, instead of temporarily eradicating them. The main goal of the IPM is to manage pests and the environment so as to balance costs, benefits, public health, and environmental quality. The Central Integrated Pest Management Centre in Jammu and Kashmir (CIPMCJK ...
Plant Protection Officer (PP) Plant Quarantine Station, Regional Central Integrated Pest Management Centre, 2nd Floor, New Secretariat Building, East Wing, Civil Lines Nagpur -440 001, (Maharashtra) 0712-2562215 (O) pqs [dot]ngp-dppqs [at]gov [dot]in. 65.
To protect our plant life from ravages of destructive pests by preventing their entry, establishment and spread and thereby increasing agriculture productivity in order to improve the economy of our country.
- Legislation
- Infrastructure
- Procedure For Import of Plant Genetic Resources
- Methods For Detection and Interception of Pests in Plant Quarantine
- Salvaging of Infested Exotic Germplasm
- Need For Strengthening in Plant Quarantine For Effective Biosecurity
- Development of An Integrated Information Management System
- Establishment of Biosecurity Units
- Strengthening Research Back-Up
- The Way Forward
The first quarantine law ordained in India was the Destructive Insects and Pests (DIP) Act in 1914 (https://plantquarantineindia.nic.in/PQISPub/docfiles/dip_act.htm). A gazette notification on Rules for Regulating the Import of Plants etc. into India were issued in 1936 to implement the plant quarantine law. Over the past > 100 years, the DIP Act h...
The national infrastructure is well placed for proper implementation of the quarantine regulations in the country. The Directorate of Plant Protection, Quarantine and Storage (DPPQS) of Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare is the top body for execution of plant quarantine regulations (the NPPO for India). It has a network of 70 plant quarant...
Research institutions of public and private sector interested in importing plants or planting material request ICAR-NBPGR for Import Permit (IP), which is not transferable. The Phytosanitary Certificate is also a statutory requirement issued by the country of export and is an evidence that the shipment has been inspected as per the requirements of ...
During the last five years, a total of 5,45,945 samples including germplasm accessions, trial/nurseries breeding material of various crops comprising both true seeds and vegetative propagules were examined for the diagnostics of accompanying exotic pests by using various techniques. The Division of Plant Quarantine at ICAR-NBPGR has developed proce...
During 2015–2020, out of the total 10,106 infected/infected samples by various pests, 7393 samples were salvaged by various physico-chemical treatments before release while remaining 2813 samples were rejected. The various approaches such as mechanical treatment, heat treatment, chemical treatment, fumigation, alcohol wash, acid wash, X-ray radiogr...
The Destructive Insects & Pests Act (DIP Act), 1914 and the PQ Order 2003 covers import of plants/plant products based on risk assessments and management there is a need to strengthen them with respect to the following: 1. The DIP Act is an old legislation and subordinate to the Sea and Customs Act which does not give direct powers to the Plant Qua...
There is a need to improve the information management system developed by plant quarantine services to meet the client needs by way of free flow of information for policy makers, administrators, industry groups and other stakeholders. This would require development of software for work flow, pest identification, and plant quarantine website. A webs...
To address the various issues related to plant quarantine and biosecurity at the national level, separate Units need to be established namely; Sanitary and Phytosanitary Unit to deal with requirements for import of plants and planting material in the SPS-WTO regime, scientific justification to facilitate trade in agricultural commodities, deal with...
Classification of the threats including insects, mites, micro-organisms and bio-weapons challenging the biosecurity of agriculture based on perceived risk levels.Increased use of radiation and other eco-friendly non-chemical frontier techniques as effective mitigation treatment.Development of user-friendly serological/molecular diagnostic protocols/kits for prognostic detection of exotic pests and their variants.Development of digitized biosystematic keys for pest identification.The liberalized trade under WTO has made quarantine personnel highly accountability on accurately achieving the objectives of eliminating alien pests or to take up eradicative actions. The threat of pest introduction and the ways to stop the establishment of such pests into India continues to be a major alarm. Unless proper phytosanitary procedures...
- S. C. Dubey, Kavita Gupta, Jameel Akhtar, V. Celia Chalam, M. C. Singh, Z. Khan, S. P. Singh, Pardee...
- 2021
Directorate of Plant Protection, Quarantine and Storage, Plant Protection Division, Department of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare , Government of India
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