Project Number: 5302-43000-030-00
Project Type: Appropriated

Start Date: Jan 11, 2003
End Date: Jan 10, 2008

Objective:
Develop quarantine/postharvest control strategies using chemicals to reduce arthropod pests in durable and perishable commodities. Develop new fumigants and/or strategies to reduce methyl bromide use. Develop technology and equipment to reduce methyl bromide emissions to the atmosphere. Develop system approaches for control using chemicals combined with non-chemical methodologies which will yield integrated pest control management programs. Develop methods to detect insect infestations.

Approach:
Develop alternative chemical controls, and quarantine fumigations for stored product insects. Develop equipment and investigate the feasibility of controlling fumigant emission to the atmosphere by recycling, trapping and destruction. Develop combinations of fumigants with other technologies to reduce the dosage of fumigant required to control or eradicate stored product and quarantine insects in durable and perishable commodities. Develop non-chemical control approaches for stored-product pests of commodities. Develop methods to detect infestations by detecting volatile emissions from insects and/or commodity. Formerly 5302-43000-027-00D (12/02).

Project Team

Leesch, James - Jim Burks, Charles - Chuck Yokoyama, Victoria Kuenen, Lodewyk Johnson, Judy

Project Annual Reports

FY 2003

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Methyl Bromide Alternatives (308)

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