The cotton industry is one of the largest user of pesticides among the Australian agricultural sector. It has been estimated that endosulfan and pyrethroids account for 70% of all insecticides.

The efficacy of transgenic, 2,4-D tolerant cotton, developed by CSIRO has been field tested over the past 2 seasons on an irrigated field at Premer, on the Liverpool Plains of NSW.

The Australian cotton industry now has a new version of the SOILpak manual.

While many Australian cotton growing valleys had the fortune of relatively low Helicoverpa spp. activity during the 1997/98 season, this was not the universal experience.

Transgenic plants are rapidly dominating World agriculture and already the produce from millions of acres of transgenic insect and herbicide tolerant cotton, corn, soybean and canola being traded around the World, pre