Rules for Moving Seed within Mexico from Karnal Bunt Contaminated Areas to Karnal Bunt Free Areas

Mexico’s DSGV regulates wheat seed movement within Mexico from areas where KB is present to areas free from the disease, according to federal regulation NOM-001-FITO-2001. Therefore:

• DSGV will grant CIMMYT of a National Phytosanitary Certificated for the ammount of seed that CIMMYT intend to move from the CIANO-CIMMYT experiment station in Ciudad Obregón, Sonora, Mexico, to Batan or Toluca
• All seed produced in Obregon and coming into El Batan and Toluca experiment stations must be inspected on arrival by a technician accredited by DSGV, who will check that the requirements reported on the National Phytosanitary certificate are met.
• All seed must be treated.

Two technicians at CIMMYT headquarters are accredited every year by DSGV to release seed coming from Ciudad Obregon. However, it should be stressed that seed from Ciudad Obregon should be sown only in the El Batan and Toluca experiment stations and can not by no means be exported.