Mission Statement
The mission of the Citrus Research Board is to ensure, improve, and protect the economic viability of the California citrus industry by supporting activities in the areas of quality assurance, production and variety research, information dissemination, and grower and public education.
Purposes and Objectives
The purposes of the Citrus Research Board are to establish research priorities and provide funding on a priority basis to those efforts which are directed toward assuring that the citrus industry of California will be able to produce and market citrus fruits of the highest quality while being totally competitive in the marketplace, both domestic and international.
Considerations of the Board include but are not limited to:
- Facilitating improvements in the means of controlling insects, diseases, and any other disorders that may limit the quality or production of citrus.
- Facilitating advancements in cultural practices, such as in plant nutrition and irrigation management, to assist growers in efforts to improve fruit quality and yield.
- Insuring that high quality disease-free and true-to-type plant material is continually available to the industry through a citrus clonal protection program.
- Facilitating improvements in pre-harvest and post-harvest fruit handling techniques, including methods and materials for decay control, to aid growers and packers in delivering excellent quality fruit to the marketplace.
- Providing growers and shippers with technical information to ensure that their marketed fruit will continue to meet the numerous requirements of U.S. and foreign food laws by maintaining a citrus quality assurance program.
- Facilitating, through the quality assurance program, the collection of scientific information to assist the industry in responding to questions or problems arising in state, national, and international arenas in terms of quarantine matters, quality control, international compliance and related issues.
- Supporting those activities directed toward improving production and marketing costs.
- Engaging in the dissemination of information and grower and public education on citrus-related issues.
Members of the Board