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Other regulatory approaches to pest control
- Enforced crop-free periods. Crop-free
periods, enforced either by grower associations or by governmental
agencies, are particularly useful in sub-tropical or tropical
climates that do not have a winter period to break the life cycles
of pests.
- Enforced restrictions on planting
time.
- Enforced growing of particular
cultivars.
- Compulsory sanitation measures.
- Certification of seed and other
planting stock.
- Control districts. The presence
of certain plant species is prohibited in control districts, and
the landowner is legally responsible for removing any prohibited
plant species. Control districts have been used for control of
alternate hosts of some pathogens (e.g., eradication of black
currant for white pine blister rust control). Control districts
are also used for the control of some weed specie
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