Producers from the Los Santos area say that the avocados entering the country from Peru are contaminated with the Sunblotch plague, and asked the State Phytosanitary Service to close the Costa Rican market to the Peruvian fruit.

Nacion.com reports that "...After blocking entry of the Mexican fruit, Peru has became one of the two main suppliers of Hass fruit for Costa Rica (the other is Chile). Importers say that the shopping window runs from March to September and according to a CNP market study, in the first half of this year, 14% of the imports were fruit from that country and in the period January-June 2016, the figure was 43%."

See: "Avocado in Costa Rica: Something Smells Fishy"

The director of the SFE, Marco Vinicio Jiménez, "... said on the afternoon of Wednesday, September 27, that a measure of market closure is not activated just because a group requests it. That requires, he added, an investigation and then the application of a protocol by which the affected country is notified and its defence must be received."

Source: Nacion.com

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