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AJC.com > Legislature > Blog > Archives > 2009 > February > 05 > Entry

Boll weevil eradication

By Mary Lou Pickel | Thursday, February 5, 2009, 11:22 AM

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

One of Georgia’s cash crops got a little help Thursday.

The Senate changed current law to require that the first handler of cotton, meaning the one who owns or operates the gin where cotton is first delivered from the grower, must collect the boll weevil eradication fee. Before it was the first one who first bought the cotton.

Sen. George Hooks (D-Americus) said the current boll weevil eradication process is much better than the old way. In the old days, farmers used DDT, which created a dust in the air over large parts of the land.

The Senate passed the measure, Senate Bill 43, by a vote of 49 to 0.

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