Abstract

BURITICA CESPEDES, Pablo. TO OBTAIN CROPS AND HEALTHY PRODUCTS, A NATIONAL PURPOSE: PUBLIC HEALTH FOR PLANTS, THEIR PHILOSOPHY. Rev.Fac.Nal.Agr.Medellín [online]. 2008, vol.61, n.1, pp. 4248-4255. ISSN 0304-2847.

A proposal about Public Health for Plants (PHP) to obtain crops and healthy products is presented, being important exclude pathogens and control diseases in incipient stages to have minimal damage and costs. The trilogy: technical recommendation up to specific actions; actors involved in control and properly qualified farmers and appropriate economic, political and social environment to implement control that should be formalized in a plan, are the elements to arrive to the PH

Keywords : Plants; diseases; Public Health.