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Texas Agriculture Code - Section 74.125. Organic Cotton Growers

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§ 74.125. ORGANIC COTTON GROWERS.  (a) The commissioner 
shall develop rules and procedures to:
		(1)  protect the eligibility of organic cotton growers 
to be certified by the commissioner;
		(2)  ensure that organic and transitional 
certification by the commissioner continue to meet national 
certification standards in order for organic cotton to maintain 
international marketability;  and
		(3)  in all events maintain the effectiveness of the 
boll weevil or pink bollworm eradication program administered under 
this subchapter.
	(b)  The board may not treat or require treatment of organic 
cotton fields with chemicals that are not approved for use on 
certified organic cotton.  Plow-up may be required as an 
alternative to chemicals.  Rules adopted under Subsection (a) may 
provide indemnity for the organic cotton growers for reasonable 
losses that result from a prohibition of production of organic 
cotton or from any requirement of destruction of organic cotton.  If 
time is reasonably available for the production of an economically 
feasible alternative crop, the board may require mitigation of 
losses with the production of an alternative crop.

Added by Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 8, § 1, eff. June 1, 1993.  
Amended by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 227, § 19, eff. Sept. 1, 
1995;  Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 463, § 1.23, eff. May 30, 1997.

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