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| http://www.billnelson.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/congressional-budget-deal-includes-75-million-to-combat-citrus-greening | Congressional budget deal includes $7.5 million to combat citrus greening | 2015-12-16 | 2015 | 2015-12 | Democrat | House | FL | Bill Nelson | N000032 | www.billnelson.senate.gov | legacy | WASHINGTON, D.C. The budget deal congressional leaders reached last night includes $7.5 million for research into a cure for the deadly citrus greening disease threatening Floridas nearly $11 billion citrus industry. The money, which U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson (D-FL) pushed to have included in the $1.1 trillion budget unveiled last night, will go to the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service Huanglongbing Multiagency Coordination Group and Citrus Health Response Program to find both short and long-term solutions to keep the states citrus trees in production while a cure is being sought. We have to do everything we can to keep this industry alive while we search for a cure, Nelson said. Citrus greening has been blamed for killing crops across the country including more than 130,000 acres in Florida since 2005. Just this month, the U.S. Department of Agriculture lowered their forecast for the seasons total orange crop to just 69 million boxes, which would be the smallest harvest in half a century. Last week, the Florida lawmaker wrote to the Environmental Protection Agency to push for an emergency exemption for growers to use two additional bactericides to combat citrus greening. And earlier this month, he introduced a bill to make it easier for growers to immediately deduct the cost of replanting trees lost to citrus greening. Nelson sent a letter to Senate appropriators last month urging that the funds be included in the just-released budget deal. A copy of that letter is available here. | 1 | 2026-03-30T12:14:52Z | 2026-03-30T12:14:52Z |