Pest Risk Assessment of Wheat Grains Import from Pakistan Contaminated with the Fungal Tilletia indica as Pest Quarantine A1: (A Novel of Academic Investigation)

摘要

The aims of the academic investigation are to give information about the necessity of holistic approaches in doing pest risk assessment, to collaborate among stakeholders in order to prevent dispersal of pest and disease quarantine in new areas, and to recommend strongly stakeholders related to case of wheat grains import in South Sulawesi. According to the Indonesian Government Regulation No.14 of 2002 about “plant quarantine” that every carrier media, whose contamination with pest categories A1, has to be assessed through procedure of pest risk treatment and be destroyed indeed. In 2011, in Makassar South Sulawesi, the importer, Letifindo Company, imported wheat grains from Pakistan to Makassar South Sulawesi for manufacturing purpose but these wheat grains which were claimed by plant quarantine officers has contaminated by Tilletia indica. This typical fungal, which infects wheat grains, is categorized as pest plant quarantine A1. The scientific investigation, afterwards, was conducted and recommended that the import of wheat grains should be allowed to be manufactured as long as their bran residual must be burnt or ruined in order to prevent fungal dispersal in the indigenous crops on the farming-land in South Sulawesi.