The citrus industry research priorities and needs are evaluated annually.  This year the FCIRCC made some subtle changes in the category names to better reflect the scope of the priority.  They examined closely the current list to determine if any existing areas needed to be removed or combined.  With the arrival of Citrus Black Spot and Sweet Orange Scab they felt a priority for other diseases/pests was in order and thus added a priority item to cover potential threats to the Florida citrus industry. 

 View the detailed listing of the 2011 Citrus Research Priorities

The citrus industry research priorities and needs are evaluated annually.  This year the FCIRCC made some subtle changes in the category names to better reflect the scope of the priority.  They examined closely the current list to determine if any existing areas needed to be removed or combined.  They looked carefully at current needs and decided there were no priorities that needed to be added.

 View detailed listing of the Annual Priorities for 2010

The citrus industry priorities for 2009 are basically the same as they were for 2008. It is important to note that several of the items have expanded to incorporate a wider impact on the industry. For example greening is more than tree loss in the field. Could there be possible issues with juice from infected trees in the processing stream? Canker reaches beyond the grove to the packinghouse where one lesion can prevent an entire block from being shipped outside the state. Therefore, note that the attached priorities refer to a wider impact of a problem. Growers, packers, processors and harvesters once again ranked the various research needs which were submitted by each segment of the industry.

View Detailed listing of Research Priorities for 2009