USDA said it would investigate soybean rust in South America

Introduction: Washington news: Recently, a fungus harmful to soybean plants was found in South America, which attracted the attention of American agricultural officials Jim Rogers, spokesman for the U.S Department of agriculture's animal and plant health and Quarantine Bureau, told reporters that his department is considering "what measures should be taken" to prevent the soybean rust from entering the United States The disease has not been found in the continental United States But in 1994, there was a local outbreak of the fungus in some small vegetable gardens in Hawaii Rogers said that after the first discovery of the disease in Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay, the animal and plant quarantine office of the Ministry of Agriculture began work on the devastating disease This kind of pathogen will seriously affect the single yield of soybean Rogers said his agency is still in the process of collecting data from South America He is not sure when the investigation will end or when action will be taken At the beginning of this month, an alliance of American companies plans to buy 180000 tons of soybean meal from Brazil, with the shipment scheduled for summer So there are many questions about this pathogen In the process of processing soybean into soybean meal, high temperature will generally kill the bacteria However, it is also possible that the soybean residues separated before high temperature treatment will be mixed with the processed soybean meal The U.S soybean group USB announced earlier this month that if the soybean pathogen entered the United States, the yield per unit in the main soybean producing areas would be reduced by as much as 40%, according to data from the computer model hazard assessment system of the U.S Department of agriculture (author:) share to feed Weibo share to: