Dl6-Lancaster Farming Saturday, October 7,1989
HARRISBURG —Two studies
aimed at combatting Lyme disease
are among 14 new research pro
jects approved for funding by the
Pennsylvania Department of Agri
culture during the current fiscal
year, Agriculture Secretary Boyd
E. Wolff announced recently.
The projects, approved by the
department’s Agricultural
Research Committee, raise the tot
al number of studies now under
way to 77 and the amount author
ized for research-related work to
$3 million for the 1989-90 fiscal
year. In April the committee allo
cated $2.5 million to start 40 new
projects and continue 23 extended
from previous years.
‘The 14 additional projects will
enable the department to increase
research efforts on more complex
problems and to include several
new areas of concern, such as
Lyme disease,” Wolff said.
Lyme disease, spread primarily
by deer ticks, can cause neurologi-
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humans and domestic animals.
The University of Pennsylvania
received a $42,936 grant for the
first year of a two-year study of
ways to control the disease.
Pennsylvania State University
researchers, in a projected three
year study, will look into the ecol
ogy and other factors affecting
ticks that spread the disease. A
grant of $47,945 was allocated for
the initial year.
In addition to the grant for
Lyme disease research, the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania will
receive $39,600 for the initial half
of a two-year study of a respirat
ory infection in Pennsylvania
poultry flocks.
The remaining 11 projects will
be conducted at Penn State. Those
studies, with their projected dura
tion and the amount of the first
year grant, are:
Projects To Aid Agriculture
Integrated pest management
(EPM) for sweet-com borer con
trol, two years, $14,609; survey of
IPM practices in the state, two
years, $15,950; economic profile
of the state’s food processing
industry, two years, $38,937; pro
file of Pennsylvania horse indus
try, three years, $31,715; recy
cling wastes as feed byproducts,
three years, $31,158.
Also, IPM use in greenhouses,
three years, $47,739; continued
study of Tufted Apple Bud Moth
Control, two years, $34,328; turf
grass IPM, three years, $33,526;
honeybee mite control, two years,
$21,117; recycling newspapers for
animal bedding, two years,
$68,182; and control of diseases
stemming from condemned poul
try, two years, $44,577.
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