The situation of major crop diseases and pests is expected to remain severe in 2024

 Recently, the National Agricultural Technology Center held a Chamber of commerce on the occurrence trend of major crop pests and diseases in 2024 in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, to summarize and exchange the characteristics of major crop diseases and pests in 2023 and the results of measurement and reporting, analyze the occurrence trend in 2024, and arrange the deployment of key work of monitoring and early warning.

Experts from the Institute of Plant Protection, Institute of Vegetables and Flowers, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Nanjing Agricultural University, National Meteorological Center and other units made special reports on the occurrence of Tuta absoluta, cowpea thrips, soybean root rot, wheat stripe rust, monitoring and investigation techniques and climate trend prediction. The participants also observed the progress of the construction of Zhejiang digital three agricultural big data platform, and discussed the operation and management of the national crop disease and pest monitoring regional station, intelligent monitoring equipment and the development and application of digital precision monitoring and early warning technology.

On the basis of comprehensive analysis of prewinter pest bases, host crops, meteorological conditions and other influencing factors, the expert group predicted that in 2024, the occurrence of major crop diseases and pests will still be severe, including wheat scab, crown rot, southern corn rust, fall armyworm, cotton bollworm, asparagus caterpillar, and chilo suppressalis. banded sclerotial blight, Tuta absoluta, soybean root rot and other migratory epidemic diseases have prominent risk of re-emergence in large areas.

All local governments should fully understand the new situation, new requirements and new tasks facing measurement and reporting work, focus on the implementation of a new round of action to increase grain production capacity, soybean oil production capacity and green and high-quality development, and strengthen the technical reserve of a new type of disease and pest measurement and reporting on the basis of ensuring quality and quantity, timely and efficient performance of the legal functions of monitoring and early warning of major crop diseases and pests. Continue to promote the layout and construction of field monitoring points, the seamless docking and functional upgrading of digital monitoring and warning platforms, as well as the test demonstration and effective application of intelligent monitoring and warning equipment, further knit and knit the monitoring and warning network, improve the terminal discovery ability, and constantly move toward the intelligent measurement and warning goal of "integrated monitoring, one-game scheduling, one-map command". To make new and greater contributions to consolidating the cornerstone of agricultural harvest in an all-round way.