The NCC is seeking $15.73 million for the APHIS Cotton Pests Account (a $1 million increase) for aggressively completing boll weevil eradication in Texas’ Lower Rio Grande Valley. Sufficient funding
was requested so the FSA can make up to $30 million in loans to eligible producer-controlled organizations carrying out eradication activities. The NCC requested a $1 million increase directed to ARS for research on cotton seed bug control and level funding for research aimed at controlling cotton blue disease, cotton leafroll dwarf virus and other exotic pathogens.
