Boll Weevil Eradication Program | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 06/01/2019

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00:03:18 2 Operation
00:05:06 3 Impacts



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The Boll Weevil Eradication Program is a program sponsored by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) that has sought to eradicate the boll weevil in the cotton-growing areas of the United States. It is 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 and 100 percent, 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.