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The California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) has awarded $500,000 in funding through the Adaptive IPM for Invasive Agricultural Pests grant program to Dr. Mark Hoddle for a three-year project titled “Proactive Development of an Integrated Pest Management (IPM) Program for Cotton Seed Bug in Bt and non-Bt Cotton in California.”
This project aims to develop the first comprehensive IPM strategy in California for the cotton seed bug, an emerging pest that has recently become established in urban areas and is now expanding toward key cotton producing regions. Building on the principal investigator’s prior laboratory and field research on cotton seed bug biology and ecology, this new effort will shift toward applied, field scale evaluations.
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CDFA’s Mission: To safeguard a resilient food system and promote an equitable marketplace, cultivating a California grown food supply that is globally recognized for innovation, quality and sustainability. |
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