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Eradicating Fruit Fly From Carnarvon, Kingsley Thomas Fisher
Eradicating Fruit Fly From Carnarvon, Kingsley Thomas Fisher
Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4
Late last year the Mediteranean fruit fly (Ceratitis capitata Weidemann) was eradicated from Canarvon, Western Australia by using an intergrated programme of sterile insect releases and bait spraying.
The eradication marked the end of a four-year study on the use and effectiveness of the Sterile Insect Technique, a biological control technique which uses an insect pest against itself. such a study can be used as a basis for treating other threatening insect pests, such as the serious cattle pest screw-worm fly, should they be found in Asustralia.
Being a biological control method, the Sterile Insect Technique is an exellent …
Farm Debt In The Wheatbelt : 1984 Survey Results, R S. Kingwell
Farm Debt In The Wheatbelt : 1984 Survey Results, R S. Kingwell
Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4
In recent years many farms in Western Australia's wheat-growing areas have experienced adverse seasons. For example, the 1983-84 season was characterised by a late start, dry spring and wet harvest which resulted in many farms suffering a combination of low yields and the downgrading or dockage of their grain.
Poor seasons and poor profitability prospects for wheat-growing caused some concern about farm indebtedness in these areas.
In late 1983, a Parlimentary select committee was appointed to inquire into rural hardship. The State Minister for Agriculture also announced that the Department of Agriculture would conduct a farm survey to determine the …