CDFA’s report “Progress for California” highlights a variety of ways that agency programs benefit the state. A prime example is our work to prevent invasive fruit flies from becoming established and threatening our food supply.
Each year brings new infestations to the state, and each year CDFA successfully eradicates those infestations. An especially challenging year was a period spanning parts of 2023 and 2024, when there were record numbers of infestations and 17 different quarantines around the state.
Working with partners at agricultural commissioners’ offices, the USDA, and within the grower community, CDFA achieved 100 percent eradication, adding to its stellar record over the last five decades.
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