Pest Risk Analysis (PRA)

Pest Risk analysis is a process of investigation, evaluation of information, and decision-making concerning a certain pest that starts once it is known or determined that this pest is a quarantine pest.

(Quarantine pest: A pest of potential economic importance to the area endangered thereby and not yet present there, or present but not widely distributed and being officially controlled)

Why and when is a PRA done?

• Pest Risk Analysis (PRA) is done to protect the country’s agriculture from damages that can be caused by harmful (quarantine) pests that can be brought in along with imported

• PRA evaluates the likelihood of the entry, establishment, or spread of a pest and the associated potential biological and economic consequences.