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|ProgramName=Boll Weevil Eradication Program | |||
|ProgramType=Program | |||
|OrgSponsor=Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service | |||
|TopOrganization=Department of Agriculture | |||
|Website=https://www.cotton.org/tech/pest/bollweevil/ | |||
|Historic=No | |||
|Mission=The Boll Weevil Eradication Program seeks to eliminate the boll weevil, one of the most destructive cotton pests, from the cotton-growing areas of the United States. It aims to reduce pesticide use, increase cotton yields, and support the economic sustainability of cotton production through integrated pest management techniques. | |||
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{{Short description|USDA pest management program}} | {{Short description|USDA pest management program}} | ||
The '''Boll Weevil Eradication Program''' is a program sponsored by the [[United States Department of Agriculture]] (USDA) which has sought to eradicate the [[boll weevil]] in the [[cotton]]-growing areas of the [[United States]]. It's one of the world's most successful implementations of [[integrated pest management]]. The program has enabled cotton farmers to reduce their use of [[pesticides]] by between 40-100%, and increase their yields by at least 10%, since its inception in the 1970s. By the autumn of 2009, eradication was finished in all US cotton regions with the exception of less than one million acres still under treatment in Texas.<ref>[http://www.cotton.org/tech/pest/bollweevil/index.cfm Current Status of Boll Weevil Eradication Program, National Cotton Council, Fall 2009]</ref> | The '''Boll Weevil Eradication Program''' is a program sponsored by the [[United States Department of Agriculture]] (USDA) which has sought to eradicate the [[boll weevil]] in the [[cotton]]-growing areas of the [[United States]]. It's one of the world's most successful implementations of [[integrated pest management]]. The program has enabled cotton farmers to reduce their use of [[pesticides]] by between 40-100%, and increase their yields by at least 10%, since its inception in the 1970s. By the autumn of 2009, eradication was finished in all US cotton regions with the exception of less than one million acres still under treatment in Texas.<ref>[http://www.cotton.org/tech/pest/bollweevil/index.cfm Current Status of Boll Weevil Eradication Program, National Cotton Council, Fall 2009]</ref> | ||
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[[Category:Crops|Cotton]] | [[Category:Crops|Cotton]] | ||
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