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Boll Weevil Eradication: Status and Future Plans

Charles H. Parker


 
ABSTRACT

The Boll Weevil Eradication Program continues to make good progress. To date, the weevil has been eradicated from more than 3.7 million acres in 9 states. Post-eradication surveillance with pheromone traps continues to protect these areas from reinfestation. Eradication activity is underway on an additional 1.5 million acres, and with referenda passed in Arkansas, Louisiana, and two zones in Texas, further expansion is planned in 1997. A new loan program, the indirect effects of Bt cotton, and increasing emphasis by growers on reducing production costs, should combine to generate new momentum for program expansion and completion.



Reprinted from Proceedings of the 1997 Beltwide Cotton Conferences pp. 19 - 22
©National Cotton Council, Memphis TN

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