Eliminate 3 seriously invasive alien species

By 2020, three seriously invasive alien species, Pomacea canaliculata, Mimosa pigra and Mimosa diplotricha, must be controlled and eradicated nationwide.

It is one of the main contents of the Project on Preventing and controlling invasive alien organisms in Vietnam until 2020 and has been approved by the Deputy Prime Minister Hoang Trung Hai.

Accordingly, the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development and People's Committees of provinces, cities directly under the Central Government and other ministries work together to evaluate and select control solutions. control, build models and apply experimental measures to eliminate yellow snails, Mimosa and Mimosa seeds.

In addition, the Decision also assigned the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Ministry of Science and Technology and People's Committees of provinces, cities directly under the Central Government and other ministries to coordinate implementation. 2018 completed construction of tests, assessment of invasive ability of alien species. Includes research and application of measures to assess the potential of invasive species to the environment and bio-diversity, review and list of establishments to test and assess species at risk. invasive imports into Vietnam .

The spread of invasive alien organisms is now recognized as one of the greatest threats to the ecology and world economy. In Vietnam, invasive alien organisms are causing great losses to biodiversity and agricultural, forestry, fishery and valuable natural ecosystems.

Only in the Golden Snail, each year, the whole country has about 1,000 hectares of rice that are badly damaged by yellow snails, causing farmers to re-cultivate many times; 22,000 hectares of severely damaged farmers have to re-transplant them 1-2 times and over 200,000 ha of moderate-light damage, farmers have to transplant them back into small plots. In addition to rice, golden snails also directly damage water spinach, taro and many other crops.