Jayapura, April 26 -- The South Papua Quarantine Agency supervised the arrival of sugarcane cuttings from Australia at Mopah Airport in Merauke, South Papua.

A total of 1,440 sugarcane cuttings in 36 tubes arrived in Merauke on Thursday on a direct chartered flight from Australia, said Cahyono, head of the South Papua Quarantine Agency, on Friday.

Before the cuttings were placed in the quarantine isolation and observation room, a series of actions were carried out in the form of administrative and physical examinations as well as laboratory tests to ensure they showed no symptoms of quarantine plant pest organisms, he added.

He said that imported cuttings need to come with a phytosanitary certificate (PC) from the country of origin, wh...