{"id":4728,"date":"2021-11-03T17:24:29","date_gmt":"2021-11-03T17:24:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iplantprotect.pt\/?p=4728"},"modified":"2025-05-08T13:41:17","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T13:41:17","slug":"apulia-warns-farmers-about-ineffective-cures-for-xylella-fastidiosa","status":"publish","type":"eventos","link":"https:\/\/iplantprotect.pt\/en\/eventos\/apulia-avisa-agricultores-sobre-curas-ineficazes-para-a-xylella-fastidiosa\/","title":{"rendered":"Puglia warns farmers about ineffective cures for Xylella fastidiosa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>No product currently on the market is capable of eliminating <em>Xylella fastidiosa<\/em>, the Commission for the Regional Budget of Puglia, southern Italy. The bacterium continues to seriously affect olive groves in Italy's main olive oil producing region.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe two products marketed in recent weeks as a treatment against the drying out of trees, and useful for bringing plants back to their original glory, are a mixture of natural soaps or adjuvants,\u201d said the director of Puglia's phytosanitary observatory, Salvatore Infantino, at a public hearing, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oliveoiltimes.com\/business\/puglia-warns-farmers-of-ineffective-xylella-fastidiosa-cures\/99881\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">quoted by <em>OliveOilTimes<\/em><\/a>. The heads of the regional budget commission for this area of southern Italy, which forms the \u201cheel\u201d of the \u201cboot\u201d, guarantee that there are currently no products on the market capable of eliminating the bacteria <em>Xylella fastidiosa<\/em> of infected trees, particularly olive trees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This bacterium is the most active pathogen affecting olive trees in Italy's main olive oil producing region. For Salvatore Infantino, the development of a product capable of combating it remains an important goal for many of those striving to reduce the devastation caused by the bacteria. <em>Xylella fastidiosa<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><q>Public authorities must not make the mistakes of the past by giving credence to unscientific theories that have already caused so much damage and wasted so much time.<\/q><\/p><cite><em>Fabiano Amati, president of Puglia's regional budget committee<\/em><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A <em>Xylella fastidiosa<\/em> was first detected in the European Union precisely in Puglia, in October 2013, and was responsible for an outbreak that, by 2015, had already infected one million olive trees in this Italian region alone. \u201cCurrently, good agricultural practices and eradication are the only weapons we have against the <em>Xylella<\/em>, It's a way of saving time while we wait for a truly effective treatment,\u201d says Salvatore Infantino.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/easb4aajaue.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Olive-grove-infested-with-Xylella-fastidiosa-in-Puglia-Italy-in-2019_Sjor-2.jpg?strip=all&resize=552%2C413\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4735\" width=\"552\" height=\"413\"\/><figcaption>Olive groves infested with <em>Xylella fastidiosa<\/em>, Puglia, Italy, 2019.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right wp-block-paragraph\">Image: WIKI\/ Sjor<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apulian authorities guarantee that there are no products on the market today capable of eliminating the Xylella fastidiosa bacterium from infected trees.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4735,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4728","eventos","type-eventos","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iplantprotect.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/eventos\/4728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iplantprotect.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/eventos"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iplantprotect.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/eventos"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iplantprotect.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/iplantprotect.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/eventos\/4728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15073,"href":"https:\/\/iplantprotect.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/eventos\/4728\/revisions\/15073"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iplantprotect.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iplantprotect.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iplantprotect.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iplantprotect.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}