The recent pioneering attempts of several cotton growers to produce organic cotton presents an opportunity to monitor pest populations in the absence of synthetic insecticides.

Objectives To continue the development and validation of a series of micro-computer based decision support packages (initially hydroLOGIC and entomoLOGIC) under the generic name CottonLOGIC.,

OBJECTIVES OF VISIT: (i) To attend and present a paper and a poster at the Sixth International Verticillium Symposium, Dead Sea Israel.

This project supports the maintenance of fibre testing facilities at the Australian Cotton Research Institute.

A number of laboratory experiments have been run since 1989 to address the area of distribution variation.