This project was aimed at providing a rational approach to restoring soil structure after it becomes degraded under intensive irrigated cotton production. The specific aims were: 1.

A new monitoring technique has been devised which enables individual larvae to be screened for pyrethroid/endosulfan resistance directly from the field without changing their genetic makeup.

Cultivating equiupment purchase

A rapid chemical method for determining the age of adults of laboratory reared Pectinophora scutigera has been developed.

The overall objective is to develop soil and agronomic management techniques to improve the aeration of irrigated clays and hence their productivity for cotton.