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Funding Program: Enhancement Grants - Special Projects

Project Title: Leveraging Federal Conservation Programs to Increase Adoption of Integrated Pest Management in Western North Carolina Christmas Tree and Nursery Production

Project Director (PD): Lawrence Elworth [1]

Lead State: NC Lead Organization: Center for Agricultural Partnerships, Inc

Undesignated Funding: $20,000

Start Date: Jul-01-2004 End Date: Jun-30-2005

Summary: Increased funding levels authorized in the 2002 Farm Bill for the Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) offer an unprecedented opportunity to increase the adoption of integrated pest management (IPM) in specialty crops. However, due to a lack of awareness and knowledge, the enormous potential of the conservation programs to increase IPM adoption is being lost. Specialty crop growers need a basic awareness and understanding of the benefits and opportunities under EQIP, the knowledge and assistance necessary to successfully apply and participate in EQIP, and concrete evidence in their cropping system that growers can successfully make use of EQIP in their operations. CAPs project provides a targeted information, recruitment, and assistance program to increase grower participation in western North Carolina Christmas tree and nursery production. By providing growers with the awareness and knowledge necessary to successfully apply to EQIP for support in the use of IPM practices and by conducting a targeted recruitment and assistance program, the project offers the means to make the potential for EQIP to increase IPM adoption a reality. In doing so, it will serve as a model for other crops in other southern states of how growers can take advantage of this unprecedented opportunity to advance IPM adoption. Objectives: The Center for Agricultural Partnerships project, Leveraging federal conservation programs to increase adoption of integrated pest management in western North Carolina Christmas tree and nursery production, has the following objectives: Objective 1) Provide nursery and Christmas tree growers in western North Carolina with the awareness and knowledge necessary to successfully apply to EQIP for support in the use of IPM practices. Objective 2) Conduct a targeted recruitment and assistance program that will demonstrate that Christmas tree and nursery producers can make successful applications to EQIP to increase IPM adoption.

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