RIVERSIDE, Calif. (KESQ) – The Board of Supervisors tomorrow is slated to approve the Riverside County Office of Agriculture Commissioner’s proposed contract with the state to monitor programs intended to ensure containment of any pink bollworm threats to cotton crops countywide.
The office has entered into agreements with the California Department of Food & Agriculture annually for the last decade or so to manage the Pink Bollworm Cotton Plowdown Program. The new contract, valued at $5,000, would be retroactive to Nov. 1 and expire on June 30.
Under the agreement, the county’s agricultural inspectors would be responsible for tallying all acreage reserved for cotton crops and track whether those parcels where pink bollworm populations were previously identified remain plowed under, uncultivated…