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Back to the news list Australia: Tasmania's fruit fly fight hits $5.5 mi
24 May 2018 - Media Release - Fresh Plaza
The Tasmanian Government and the horticulture industry are confident the state's "largest-ever single biosecurity action" will successfully eradicate the fruit fly in the state by the start of spring.

Primary Industries Minister Sarah Courtney revealed in State Parliament on Wednesday that as of April 30, the government had spent $5.5 million tackling fruit fly incursions in the state's north through biosecurity response activities and assistance to growers and the wider industry.

More than $8 million is budgeted for this financial year; the federal government recently tipped in $20 million for the fight as well.

"Modelling conducted by the Tasmanian Institute of Agriculture shows that the likelihood of fruit fly surviving long enough over winter to re-infest fruit on mainland Tasmania in the coming spring and summer is extremely low," Miss Courtney said. "Biosecurity Tasmania is also confident that the treatment applied on infected sites will result in eradication."

According to abc.net.au, Miss Courtney told Parliament the source of fruit fly incursions that occurred on Flinders Island and at Spreyton, near Devonport, in January and a month later at George Town, north of Launceston, was commercial shipments of infected fruit that had been through certified fumigation processes on the mainland and arrived in Tasmania in October or November.

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