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Topic Title: End of Citrus Canker Eradication Topic Summary: Created On: 01/11/2006 07:16 PM |
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Published Wednesday, January 11, 2006
Canker 1,900-Rule Won't Be Enforced By Kevin Bouffard The Ledger Live with canker. Five pages of documents released today by Florida Agriculture Commissioner Charles Bronson amount to those three words directed to the state's citrus growers. Bronson and Chuck Conner, the deputy secretary at the U.S. Department of Agriculture, acknowledged in the documents eradication of the canker bacteria in Florida is no longer possible as a matter of fact, both biological and economic. The hurricanes during the past two years saw to that. ``USDA scientists also consulted with a panel of global experts in citrus diseases about the current situation in Florida. It was their conclusion that the disease is now so widely distributed that eradication is infeasible,'' according Conner's letter to Bronson dated Tuesday. The decision means the controversial 1,900-foot rule will no longer be enforced and that state Agriculture Department officials will ask the Legislature to change the law when it reconvenes in March, said Liz Compton, a department spokeswoman. While the law will remain on the books until then, the state has no money to enforce it without federal assistance, she said. ``Every law is contingent on funding for enforcement,'' Compton said. ------------------------- wavewatcher - >ww - >wavewatcher, again |
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