Resistance to some carbamate insecticides ( methomyl and carbaryl) in H. armigera is has been known since 1983. But at that time no resistance to thiodicarb (also a carbamate) was identified.

Agriculture is now recognised to be among the highest risk industry groups for occupational injury and disease.

In 1994, the Australian cotton farmer must use a wide range of costly chemicals to harvest a profitable crop. These chemicals vary significantly in their degree of hazard. Some chemicals (e.g.

The aim of the project outlined here is to try and develop the SOLICON techniques that are already being used by soil researchers in order to find a practical technique available to cotton consultants or agronomists (

Raingrown cotton is becoming a very important component of the Australian industry: the relative proportion of the crop grown with rain has been increasing over the past ten years.