The report is expected to focus on migrant children who work on farms. Diane Mull, executive director of the Association of Farmworker Opportunity Programs, said the organization contributed information to GAO for the report. According to Mull, current pesticide occupational assessments and resulting safety precautions do not properly take into account the pesticide exposures of children and female farm workers. The deadline for sign up is February 25, 2000. Final payments to eligible producers will be calculated and dispersed after all applications have been received and approved.
Surveyors are still unsure as to how far the virus has spread due to aphids.
But for now, PPV has yet to be confirmed outside the two-mile quarantine area in Adams County, Pennsylvania. To date, there is no cure for this virus and the only real control is eradication. PPV can infect apricots and nectarines, it has only been confirmed in two varieties of peaches and five varieties of plums and rarely shows symptoms in cherries. Two major risks worry the industry the disease can lay low for two to five years before becoming symptomatic on fruit and leaves. Please take note of PPV and look for irregular rings on stone fruit.