It has been 9 years now since the introduction of the Summer Crop Resistance Management Strategy in 1983/84 season.

There are basically three ways of preventing cotton farm runoff from contaminating the riverine.

The Bureau of Rural Resources has estimated the area in central Queensland potentially suitable for raingrown cotton production at 60-80,000 ha.

For a long time, pest control In the cotton industry has depended on a narrow range of broad-spectrum insecticides.