Is there a real Acavados available in Buffalo, NY area that is from DR, I seem not have luck find one otherwise I would have go down to any market in Yonkers, NY since they have plenty of them ./.
Any help is appericated!
You may have a hard time finding them from the DR for a while;
The Minister of Agriculture Angel Estevez has ordered precautions to be stepped up to prevent any spread of Medfly (Ceratitis capitata) after the pest was detected at Punta Cana International Airport. A commission headed by Leandro Mercedes was set up to follow up control and eradication measures after the US imposed an import ban on 18 Dominican fruits and vegetables. The authorities are hoping that the ban could be lifted within a week, as reported in acento.com.do
Estevez said that specialists from the USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) and their Dominican counterparts are working together on the sanitary procedures for combating the pest. The experts have experience of working with Medfly at a California airport. He said Medfly is endemic in all European countries and in Honduras, where exports continue normally.
On Wednesday, 18 March 2015 the USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) announced the import restrictions. The fruits and vegetables banned from export to the US are now: avocado, Clementine, grape, grapefruit, lemon, lychee, longan, mamey (sapote), mandarin, mango, orange, papaya, pepper, pummel, tangelo, tangerine, tomato and tuna (cactus fruit).
The US Embassy agriculture attache, Morgan Perkins, praised the DR for immediately notifying the MedFly detection at Punta Cana airport and for taking eradication measures. The pest was detected on a flight from South America that stopped over in Punta Cana en route to Europe.
Dominican Exporters Association (Adoexpo) president Sadala Khoury said that the ban affects around US$5 million worth of avocados that were about to be exported through Dominican ports. He says the ban affects 50% of the Adoexpo membership. Losses could reach US$300 million in exports.
Meanwhile, produce that would have been exported is now likely to flood local markets at record low prices.
Meanwhile, the Russian ambassador in the Dominican Republic Vladimir Zaemsky said his country is interested in increasing imports of Dominican fruits and vegetables. There are several flights a day with Russian tourists to the DR and the fruits and vegetables can be shipped back to Russia on those planes.
An editorial in Diario Libre today, Friday 20 March 2015 asks why the US implemented the ban when it was the Dominican authorities that notified of the problem and actions were being taken. The columnist points out that the shipment in which the bug arrived was in transit through the country and the US ambassador would have known there was no risk.
