History and objective of plant quarantine in India: A review

Abstract

Quarantine is derived from Latin word ‘Quarandum’ which means forty (40) days. It is a system to define which was used in case of ship during from country affected from pathogen cholera. In India the Destructive Insects and Pests Act was pass in 1914 (DIP act) for quarantine regulation. The term ‘Quarantine’ came to be only used for the inhibition and the practices related with it. Important of pathogen free country with efficient plant quarantine service so that instruction and treatment is obtaining planting material from the free sheet non source with the selected country. Untreated seed so that detected of seed borne pathogen is seed pathologist have looking healthy seed free from often and official certification of freedom from pest and diseases from the exported country.