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The Perelló treats with microwaves all his palmeras infested of picudo red
08/05/2012
8 May 2012
The Valencian municipality of The Perelló has initiated a treatment with microwaves in a total of 45 palmeras affected by the plague of the picudo red. The performance, carried out by the Valencian company Ecopalm Iberia, will prolong until next Thursday and will give like result the total eradication of the insect in the palmeras treated. The City council of The Perelló carries several years struggling against the picudo red, but the advance of the coleopteron has gone faster that the treatments. “Some palmeras of the municipality already have died and of which go to treat there is several gravely affected, at the end have decided to do an integral treatment to finish with the plague in the palmeras municipal, economically is asumible and seen the results have opted for carrying out it”, has affirmed the mayor of The Perelló, Miguel Fos.
The palmeras that are treating in The Perelló are of the Canarian species and Datilera and are situated, in his majority, in the Avenues Narcís Monturiol and Isaac Peral. Also they go to treat some copies of the Park of the Socarrat and of the City council, these last in a very advanced phase of infestación.
“In four days The Perelló goes to resolve his problem with the picudo red, even in palmeras gravely affected that of not being by this treatment would die without remedy in few months”, has commented Víctor Arandes, manager of Ecopalm Iberia.
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