In the fight against Xylella there is an important element of novelty: a managerial provision with which farmers who own monumental olive trees are authorized to collect the material for propagation, the scions, and to be able to proceed with grafting the plants in their own company.
He made it known Salvatore Infantino, manager of the Phytosanitary Observatory of the Puglia Region.
In particular, given the imminence of the useful period for the execution of the grafts and considering the difficulties of finding scions of suitable dimensions in the normal nursery chain, the Phytosanitary Observatory, through an urgent and immediately executive Act, intended to regulate the possibility of using other sources of supply of propagation materials.
Therefore, the interested operators, in addition to purchasing the propagation materials with passports from registered nurseries, will also be able to independently take them from plants of Leccino or FS17 (the latter only if the conditions provided for by the patent are met) present within one's own company or, where missing, in companies of third parties, provided that these mother plants have tested negative for the bacterium after molecular analysis conducted in one of the two accredited regional laboratories located in an infected area. At the end of the grafting operations, the owners/managers will have to send the analysis reports and the georeferencing coordinates of the supply sources and the grafted plants to the Phytosanitary Observatory, competent service for controls on field interventions.
