date:Dec 04, 2013
and loading the fruit so it would arrive in China well before the end of December, Nelsen said. A week does matter.
At the November meetings, representatives of the U.S. Department of Agricultures Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service and Chinas General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine reached a tentative agreement on mitigation steps that included skirting trees to avoid low-hanging fruit; applying a prophylactic copper spray at a key time of year; and usi