Fruit Fly Vapour Heat Disinfestation for Vietnam fresh fruit: an example of technical cooperation experiences with JICA (20052008)

Practical demand for assistance VietNam requested the Government of Japan to provide technical assistance in fruit fly disinfestation of fresh fruit  A JICA-funded Japan International

Good Practice in SPS-related Technical Cooperation

Fruit Fly Vapour Heat Disinfestation for Vietnam

fresh fruit: an example of

technical cooperation experiences with JICA

(2005-2008)

Dr Nguyen Huu DatPEQ II, Plant Protection Department,

Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development,

Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam

I Introduction

 The reason why we selected the project

 Practical demand for assistance

 Project purpose

The reason why

 Plant quarantine system and technical skills of Vietnam quarantine staff were not sufficiently developed to meet the challenges of international trade

requirements.

 Training needed to be able to access export markets.

Practical demand for assistance

 VietNam requested the Government of Japan to provide technical assistance in fruit fly

disinfestation of fresh fruit

 A JICA-funded (Japan International Cooperation Agency) project was proposed

Project purpose

 Vietnamese staff is capable of applying disinfestation technique of fruit flies that complies with international standard to improve Vietnamese dragon fruits’

access to international market.

Vietnamese staff trained to be capable of

applying disinfestation technique of fruit flies

that complies with international standard to

improve access of Vietnamese dragon fruit to international market.

Leading to

Lift Japanese ban on imports of

Vietnamese dragon fruit

B.dorsalis B.cucurbitae

B.correcta

Genus Bactrocera of family Tephritidae

Identification of target pests

 Improvement of rearing methods for fruit flies based on previous project work (CARD)

 Various machine performance tests conducted

 Experiments on how to avoid fruit injury

 Experiments to develop heat disinfestation treatment for dragon fruit (e.g hot water dipping tests, susceptibility tests, small and large scale mortality tests)

 Data storage system developed and utilized

Series of experiments implemented

III Outcomes of the

Project

 Evaluation team recognized project results as excellence

 Project achieved its objectives – expect that the import

ban on Vietnamese dragon fruit to Japanese market will

be lifted in December 2008

Availability of skilled staff

 Vietnamese staff continue to build on project success and

further develop capacity to meet the challenges ahead for market access

Submission of technical report

 Visit of Vietnamese officials to Japan in April 2008.

 Technical report for lifting the ban submitted to Japanese

Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries

Small scale mortality test 　 Small scale injury test

Large scale mortality test Large scale injury test

Preparation of technical report

Public hearing

(Collection of public opinions on

lifting import ban of fruit)

Investment in commercial facility

commercial Vapor Heat Treatment (VHT) facility.

fully operational by December 2008.

IV Lessons to be learned

1 Government priority

2 Human resource development

3 Provision and management of equipment

4 Contribution of Vietnamese Government

5 Impact of the US Notification on Irradiation

6 Ways in which the impact of technical assistance can

be maximized on trade performance

7 Lessons for other products and countries

8 Maintenance capabilities after end of project

9 Awareness raising

10 Difficulties and advantages

1 Government

priority

 Official meetings between our 2

countries were made by both high and mid level officials

 Ministry of Agriculture and Rural

Development of Viet Nam requested the Government of Japan to provide

technical assistance in fruit fly

disinfestations on fresh fruit

2 Human resource development

 Japanese experts provided on-site training for Vietnamese

staff

 12 persons trained in 2005 and 2006, and 8 persons trained in 2007-2008

Overseas training

 3 Vietnamese lab analysts attended technical training in Okinawa, Japan in 2005, 2006 and

2007 (4 months)

Study tours

 Two study tours to Japan for 6 Vietnamese managers to learn about Plant Quarantine Administration (2005 and 2006)

 Commitment and performance of Vietnamese and Japanese counterparts.

 Japanese scientists worked diligently and actively, and treated very expeditiously all potential problems during experiments and implementation.

 Vietnamese staff quickly learnt all theories, techniques and

practices taught by Japanese facilitators

The importance of their duties

 Modern machines and equipment provided

 Value of US$891,551 (total project budget was US$2.3 m)

3 Provision and management

of equipment

Transportation: many hard works

 Transportation of imported equipments from the port to the Quarantine Centre

(PEQC II)

Installation of machinery made by Sanchu Experts

Installation of

machinery

Classification of every equipment

Equipment management

Studying how to select the correct method

Equipment management

Clean and maintain after use

Equipment management

Servicing generators regularly

Equipment management

4 Contribution of Vietnamese

Government

FY2005 652,638,107 VND (41,228 USD) FY2006 286,043,299 VND (17,894 USD) FY2007 300,000,000 VND (18,653 USD)

 Equipment for 8 labs

Fruit supply

 Supply of fruit in adequate condition for testing

 Technical procedures followed so that fruit

delivered to labs met requirements for injury

and mortality tests

 Generator establishment and activation

 Recruitment of electricity technician for daily in-lab electric surveillance

Other logistic arrangements

5 Impact of the US Notification

6 Ways in which the impact of

technical assistance can be maximized on trade performance

Build on achievements of related technical assistance

projects, and promote linkages

 The dragon fruit pest list – developed under New Zealand project – used as main reference to draft the Pest Risk

Assessment (PRA) for APHIS

 The draft PRA for dragon fruit by APHIS-USDA was in turn used to determine the target pests for the JICA project

research

 The fruit fly pest determination from the JICA project was used to discuss and agree with APHIS-USDA to finalize the quarantine fruit fly pest list and PRA for Vietnamese dragon fruit (2008)

7 Lessons for other products

and countries

 Using the equipment, facilities, knowledge developed

under the JICA project, Vietnamese staff continue

research to apply the same VHT method to other fruit

(mango, milk apple) for Japanese market (2009-10)

 The final technical report for VHT of dragon fruit submitted not only to Japan (April 2008) but also to Chinese Taipei (Sep 2008) and New Zealand (planned in 2009)

 Vietnamese staff provide training for plant quarantine

inspectors in Cambodia on fruit fly rearing and VHT

techniques (Oct 2008) under a new JICA project

8 Maintenance capabilities after

end of project

 Vietnamese staff continue to build on success and

further develop capacity to meet the challenges ahead

for market access by ourselves

 Project sustainability ensured through funding from

annual governmental budget: over 700 million

Vietnamese Dong (USD 45,000) allocated for fiscal year

2008 (budget support from JICA ended in Feb 2008)

9 Awareness raising

 Information exchange and dialogue with stakeholders

 Private sector, university researchers, etc participated in annual joint coordinating committee meetings held every year during project implementation

 Stakeholders participated in final project evaluation by JICA, MAFF, MARD

 Commercial interest and investment – expected to be

completed at time when the ban is lifted by Japan

 Time to develop annual plans of project activities generally coincided with the end of Vietnamese fiscal year and the time when Vietnam counterparts had to draw up final financial balance-sheets

 Timely decision-making and support from MARD, Plant Protection Department and leadership from other related organization for solving problems when they occurred.

 Planned experiments for each year were implemented smoothly as scheduled.

Advantages

Thank you for your kind attention

and…

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