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Boll Weevil Eradication - National Status, 2000

Osama El-Lissy and Bill Grefenstette


 
ABSTRACT

The boll weevil eradication program in the United States began in 1983 to rid the Cotton Belt of the boll weevil, Anthonomus grandis Boheman.

To date, the boll weevil has been eradicated from over 5.0 million acres of cotton in Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, most of Alabama, Central Tennessee, Southern Rolling Plains of Texas, southern California, and Arizona, as well as from the neighboring regions of the Mexicali Valley, Sonoita, and Caborca in Mexico.

The program is currently operating in an additional 6.8 million acres of cotton in Mississippi, Tennessee, Louisiana, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Texas, and New Mexico. Further, the program is scheduled to expand in 2001 to include 2.4 million additional acres in Missouri, Arkansas, Texas, and New Mexico.

The remarkable environmental, biological, and economic benefits realized in the eradicated regions make boll weevil eradication one of the most important agricultural programs in history.





Reprinted from Proceedings of the 2001 Beltwide Cotton Conferences pp. 776 - 781
©National Cotton Council, Memphis TN

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