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Activities of Plant Quarantine
• To issue import permits to facilitate import of agricultural commodities
• To undertake import inspection of plants and plant material to ensure free from exotic
pests
• To supervise fumigation/disinfestation/ disinfection treatment of commodities.
• To undertake post-entry quarantine inspection of plants & plant material
• To undertake export inspection & phytosanitary certification of agricultural
commodities
• To undertake plant pest surveillance
• To compile information on endemic pests of crops for undertaking pest risk analysis
Notification of PQ Order
• Ministry of Agriculture (Department of agriculture & Cooperation) of Government of
India issued a Gazette Notification No: S.O. 1322(E) dated 18 th November 2003 titled
‘The Plant Quarantine (Regulation of Import into India) Order, 2003’ under Subsection
(1), Section 3 of ‘The Destructive Insects & Pests Act, 1914’
• This Order has come into force on the 1 st day of January 2004 except the sub-clause
(22) of clause 3 has come into force on the 1 st day of November 2004.
The Objectives of PQ Order
Based on scientific pest risk analysis:
• To prohibit/regulate/restrict the import of plants/plant material both for consumption &
propagation;
• To prohibit/regulate the import of germplasm/GMOs/transgenic plant material for
research purpose;
• To prohibit the import of deleterious weed species;
• To regulate the import of live insects/fungi & other microbial cultures/bio-control
agents.
• To regulate import of timber & bulk shipment of food grains;
• To regulate packaging material of plant origin in imports.
• To regulate import of soil/peat or sphagnum-moss etc.
• To regulate the import of transit consignments.
Salient Features of PQ Order
• Additional definitions incorporated to widen the scope of the order and notified points
of entry.
• Provision for Pest Risk Analysis for import of agriculture commodities.
• Provisions for regulating the import of grain contaminated with weed seeds.
• Provisions for regulating the import of soil, peat & sphagnum moss etc.
• Provisions for restricting the import of packaging material of plant origin unless
treated.
• Provisions for regulating the import of germplasm/GMOs/transgenics plant material
for research purpose.
• Provisions for regulating the import of live insects/microbial cultures including biocontrol
agents.
• Provisions for regulating bulk import of food grains including ship inspection.
• Provisions for regulating the import of timber & wooden logs.
• Provisions of cotton import regulations are incorporated.
• All Fumigation of agriculture commodities including cotton bales to be undertaken by
approved private pest control operators under the supervision of an officer duly
authorized by PPA.
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