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RED-75-381 1 (1975-06-23)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaaavd0001 and id is 1 raw text is: UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE , e, WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549 O'URCES ANODECONOM IC 'VELOPMEPIT DIVISION4JN B-133192 The fic.orable IIIII/!11/////!1//I/III/ l//11/ The Secretary of Agriculture LMO95807 :'ear Mr. Secretary: As part cf our review of federally financed research ano deve.)X)-.ent programs related to pest control and pesti- cides, we noted problems in the pilot boll weevil eradicaticn experiment which we believe merit your consideration before proceeding with a cotton belt-w.de program to eradicate the boll weevil. The experiment was to determine whether it was techni- cally and operationally feasible to e-adicate the boll weevil-- a major pest of cotton causing crop Thsses and control costs of almost $300 million a year. During fiscal year 1972, the bepartment of Agriculture; the States of Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama, and Texas; the National Cotton Council; 3nd Cotton, Incorporated, cooperatively unoertook the 2-year experiment in an area centered in southern Mississippi e'nd extending into soutnwestern Alabama an southeastern Louisiana. The experiment was completed in August 1973. One of the Greatest obstacles to developing and demon- strating effective suppression techniques in past bcll weevil research was the lack of adequate isolation of experimental areas to prevent migration of boll weevils from surroundinq a.-eas. We found that because only $4 million (f the estimated needed $5 million was available, the Department altered its initial plans for insurinq that boll weevils would not miorate into the experimental area. Consequently, prevention of migration could rot reasonably be assured, rekinq it impossible to establish whether Doll weevils found in the area. after the experiment were migrants or survivors of the eraoication treatments. BEST DOCUMENT AVAILABLE PED-75-381 9Q~5 7

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