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26 May 2015, Taroudant, Morocco - Hatim Nourredine, Chief, Protection Plant Service, of the Sanitary Food Safety National Office, (ONSSA), checking Citrus production and packaging at Domaine Elboura orchard.A Sanitary Food Safety National Office (ONSSA) inspector is on charge of verifying and giving approval for export of the local citrus production. Once certified and approved, a document is provided by the National office of Food safety, and packed oranges can finally be exported to foreign countries. Located 75 km from Agadir, produces fruit and vegetables in a natural way. Chemical treatments are avoided as much as possible but when unavoidable they are subject to a very strict regulation. The Domaine also implements SIT ( Sterile Insects Techniques) to control and fight parasitoids and predators such as the Medfly , Ceratitis capitata.

05/26/2015

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