What is the
Pest Free Area?

The Greater Sunraysia Pest Free Area is a new zone located within the existing Fruit Fly Exclusion Zone (FFEZ). It is renowned for the production of high value horticultural crops including citrus, table grapes and stone fruit. The Pest Free Area (PFA) is aligned to this production area to provide greater fruit fly control measures.

The Victorian and New South Wales Departments of Primary Industries (DPI) have introduced stringent legislative controls on the movement of host fruit and vegetables into the PFA to keep it free from the devastating pest, Queensland fruit fly. These strict controls on the movement of host fruit and vegetables have been introduced to maintain highly valuable interstate and overseas markets worth millions of dollars to ensure the area is free from fruit fly.

A detection of fruit fly within the PFA can result in the loss of lucrative export markets and the introduction of expensive control programs which affect the local fruit and vegetable industries and our communities.