The DPI has been evaluating unsprayed strip crops planted beside dryland INGARD cotton as nurseries for beneficial arthropods over the past three seasons.

The adoption of biopesticides by the cotton industry in Australia has been impressive.

Genomics is the discovery and study of many genes simultaneously on a genome - wide scale.

In some major producing countries, up to half of the returns to cotton farmers come from government subsidies.

The Australian cotton industry has, until recently, relied largely upon residual pre-plant and pre-emergent herbicides for weed control in irrigated production systems.