The councilors of Environment and Agriculture, María José Bedia and Diego Muñoz, will propose at the next regular full month of February the creation of a standing committee to monitor the proceedings conducted for the containment and eradication of "spiky red "Totana palms.
The commission would comprise, as stated in the motion, the municipal officers, councilors of Agriculture, Water and Environment, a representative of the local political groups and one appointed by the Board of headman, the Community of Irrigators and each of the affected neighborhood associations, respectively.
The "red beetle" is a plague that affects the palms, whose primary focus appeared in the Region of Murcia in 2005, while in 2006 it was officially declared the existence of plague in the Autonomous Community, which involved a significant risk to plant health.
Consequently an order of January 2006 set a binding protocol performances whose competence holds the Plant Health Service of the Directorate General of Food Industry and Agricultural Training of the Autonomous Community of Murcia
In Totana, the technicians responsible for the management of parks and gardens and conservation of rural roads and acted from the outset with the utmost care to contain the problem.
Currently, preventative treatments are being made all the palms of municipal ownership, so that from June to December 2011 has been carried out five general treatments of 4,000 liters of insecticide each, representing more than 18 liters per tree.
Traps have also been installed sampling to estimate the density of infection in our municipality.
