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Plant Industry Section

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The Vermont Agency of Agriculture, Food and Market’s Plant Industry Section is part of the Agricultural Resource Management and Environmental Stewardship division.  

Plant Industry is a regulatory branch of the Agency and works to detect, intercept and control plant and insect pests that threaten Vermont’s native plant and agriculture resources.

The Plant Industry Section covers the following areas:

  • Entomology
  • Plant Pathology
  • Cooperative Agricultural Pest Survey (Exotic and Endemic Pest Survey)
  • Plant Exportation and Importation Permitting
  • Diagnostic Laboratory
  • Vector Management
  • Nursery Inspection and Licensing
  • Domestic and Federal Plant Quarantines
  • Seed Certification
  • Noxious Weeds
  • Ginseng Certification
  • Integrated Pest Management (IPM)
  • Genetically Modified Seeds/Organisms
  • Apiary Inspection
  • Plant and Pest Quarantines

The Plant Industry Section is located at the Agency of Agriculture laboratory in Waterbury.

Asian Longhorned Beetle Photo by Michael Bohne, USDA Forest Service, www.invasive.orgmaple anthracnose Photo:U of MN Department of Plant PathologyMosquito Photo from Blackwell Publishing
 
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