Emergency Pests and Diseases

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1 Emergency Pests and Diseases

2 What is Banana Freckle? Banana Freckle is a fungal disease that affects the health of banana plants. The infected (spotted) leaves and fruit feel like sandpaper, caused by the protrusion of the fungal spore structures. It requires specialist laboratory testing to identify and is not easily identified from P. maculata.

3 What is Banana Freckle? Overseas, Banana Freckle has been observed: to reduce fruit yield by up to 35% to reduce leaf life by 50% to affect up to 78% of fruit with freckling (uncomercial)

4 There are two other closely-related Banana Freckle species. P. maculata is found in Queensland and causes minor disease and P. musarum which is not found in Australia. A new strain of Banana Freckle, Phyllosticta cavendishii, has been found in non-cavendish and Cavendish bananas across the Top End.

5 How does it spread? Little is understood about how Banana Freckle is dispersed. It is known the spores are spread by water and primarily on infected suckers and fruit. Will it infect the soil or other plants? Banana Freckle survives only on banana plants and banana fruit. It does not live on any other plants. It does not live in the soil and will disappear once all banana plant material decomposes. Any banana plants remaining after the April 2015 deadline are potential reservoirs for the pest. Can I treat it with fungicides? Regular fungicide suppresses Banana Freckle BUT not eradicate the pest. In the Phillippines 43% of treated plants were still infected with Banana Freckle. The only true way to remove this pest is to eradicate the banana plants so that the fungus has nowhere. Why a Bio-Security emergency for Australia? Eradication will prevent exposure by the pest to all banana plant varieties and will protect backyard growers and the $600 million banana industry across Australia.

6 BANANA FRECKLE ERADICATION PROGRAM (BFEP) FACE Surveillance 2. Eradication Nov 2014 to Abril 2015 for the 6 Red Zones FACE 2. Fallow Period NO bananas May 2015 to Abril 2016 FACE 3. Controlled re-introduction May 2016 to Abril 2017 = 4000 households Sentiles Follow year Monitoring

7 Nearly 100 staff (NT government employees and ADECO) $ 24 millions for 3 years (Banana Council, Federal, State contribution The BFEP is made of: A State coordinator and a incident control Communication and community engagement Operations (30 Destruction and 2 survey teams) Planning (Data Server, GIS and mapping) Logistic and finances

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11 Mapping and GIS in the Banana Freckle Eradication Effort Data capture is done into BioSIRT an Australian web-based computer application to manage routine and emergency animal and emergency incidents of disease, pest or residues (Bio-emergencies) A GIS system can tap into the BioSirt production server to further manipulate data and produce a range of maps spatial products required by the Communication, Destruction, Surveillance, State and Planning Areas of the BFEP

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13 ArcSDE service, also known as an application server, conveys spatial data between the GIS applications and the BioSIRT database. Displaying extracting polygon shapefiles and another for the point Shapefiles (no cadastre) indigenous communities, free hold.

14 Oracle (RAZOR) connection to BioSIRT server application

15 Performing SQL queries to extract spatial data from the BioSirt (contacts, Status, number of stems)

16 ArcGIS models then are used to integrate data into a master Shapefile where all the information collected is contain. A unique key - CASENUMBER is given, normally a cadastre premises or polygon of a Lot

17 ArcGIS models are required to maintain data consistency removing a number of errors are overcoming the limitations of BioSirt

18 ArcGIS models are created before a Phyton script is implemented using a Model to Script tool application

19 Once a master Shapefile is created ArcGIS data driven pages tool is used to generate field maps for destruction teams with its corresponding contact list. Maps are used to capture STATUS change and then update into BioSIRT

20 Field maps are created twice a week extracting and feeding data into BioSIRT

21 BioSIRT data capture, management and some and limited mapping capabilities, the reason of use ArcGIS

22 Maps for the State and NT electoral commission candidates

23 Maps for the State and present progesss to the Banana Council

24 Google Earth Pro application for the NT government ( NT visualizer)

25 Integrated Land Information System ( ILIS ) Department of Lands &Planning.

26 ILIS provides access via the internet to a range of information about land and property in the Northern Territory. Covering cadastre, land titles, land valuations, land use, planning and development assessment, building control, land administration and land acquisitions for Government purposes. The Program uses it routinely to confirm the cadastre of the premises

27 PREMISES NOT RELEVANT: Units of commercial premises

28 Boat Pens and marinas

29 Total number surveyed = 84% complete

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32 Self destruction by the Tiwi communities

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