Objective:
The objectives of this cooperative agreement are two fold: 1) develop and evaluate non-toxic, environmentally suitable and publicly acceptable technologies and processes for fruit fly, insect pest management, and control to enhance Hawaii's competition in the interstate and international movement of Hawaii agricultural products; and 2) Identify and characterize effective environmental and economic impacts of technologies and processes for fruit fly control to allow for interstate and international movement of Hawaii agricultural products.

Approach:
The approach to this project is to address the development and evaluation of currently acceptable or novel new non-toxic fruit-fly control strategies such as classical biological controls; post-harvest treatments, microbial control agents; behavioral genetic and ecological controls and others, while identifying potential environmental problems and developing solutions associated with currently acceptable or novel new fruit fly control strategies in a variety of Hawaii agricultural systems (such as coffee, papaya, guava, citrus, lychee, mango and other fruits). Replacing project titled "Minor Crops Pest Control" (ARS Project No. 5320-22430-020-02G) Documents SCA with HI Institute of Tropical Agricultural Human Resources. Formerly 5320-22430-020-09S (6/2005).