Plant Quarantine in the Sudan with Emphasis on Seed Quarantine

Abstract

This study was carried out to investigate the importance of plant quarantine in the Sudan. Reports, records, interviews and samples of certificates concluded that: Plant quarantine is important to protect agricultural products. Plant quarantine control measures reduce infection and combat pests and diseases in the Sudan. Data of this study explains the objectives of plant quarantine. From several plant quarantine points of view there is a particular risk attached to seeds and other plant parts. Seeds play an important role in transmission of plant diseases. International spread of seed-borne diseases due to export and import of seed may be represented by bacterial canker of tomato, bacterial blight of soybean, black rot of crucifers, bacterial yellow slime disease, bacterial blight of bean, some rust fungi, bunt of wheat, loose smut of wheat, onion smut, downy mildew disease and some viral diseases. This study includes plant quarantine in the Sudan for all exports and imports of agricultural products