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Objectives
- To establish, coordinate and provide a pest management information program in North Carolina to function as the state contact for the pest management information network established by the Southern Region Pest Management Center located at the University of Florida in Gainesville.
- To establish an advisory committee for the North Carolina Pest Management Information Program composed of pest managers, producers, commodity groups and other stakeholders representative of the diversity of capabilities, institutions and pest management issues found in North Carolina.
- To facilitate and support the production of crop profiles, pest management strategic plans and similar pest management documents for important North Carolina agricultural commodities as identified by federal regulatory agencies for the implementation of the Food Quality Protection Act of 1996.
- To strengthen the connection between pest management programs (i.e., Pest Management Information, Integrated Pest Management, Interregional Project 4, Pesticide Applicator Training) and agricultural and other private stakeholders within North Carolina.
- To serve as an information resource for the Southern Region Pest Management Center and the public and private sectors on current pest management practices, problems and issues affecting agricultural commodities produced in North Carolina.
- To actively participate in a process to identify the appropriate boundaries for agroecologically based pest management areas in the United States for Fiscal Year 2003.
Last Modified on May 15, 2001 by Stephen J. Toth, Jr.
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