Tropical Plant Health Initiative Act
Sponsored By: Senator Hirono, Mazie K. [D-HI]
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Summary
Dedicated grant program for tropical plant health. This bill would create a Tropical Plant Health Initiative inside the 1990 Farm Act to fund research, extension, surveys, and areawide pest management for tropical crops.
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- Farmers and growers: Targets pests and noxious weeds that threaten coffee, cacao, bananas and plantains, mango, macadamia, vanilla, floriculture and nursery crops. Grants would support on-the-ground tools, treatments, and areawide pest management.
- Researchers and extension services: Funds research on biology, immunology, ecology, genomics, bioinformatics, and plant immune factors. It also supports surveys and data collection on production and plant health.
- USDA and program administration: Gives the Secretary authority to add other tropical plants to the list and extends the program's authorized funding window through 2030 under the existing 1990 Act framework.
*It authorizes grants under the 1990 Act and extends the initiative's authorization to 2030.*
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Grants to protect tropical crops
If enacted, this bill would create a Tropical Plant Health Initiative to fund research and extension grants. The grants would help develop and share science-based tools and treatments for pests and noxious weeds affecting listed tropical crops (coffee, macadamia, cacao, plantains and bananas, mangos, floriculture and nursery crops, vanilla, and other tropical plants the Secretary adds). Grants could support areawide integrated pest management, surveys and data collection on production and plant health, and biology, immunology, genomics, and related research. The bill would also extend the program's grant authorization through 2030. The program would take effect upon enactment.
Sponsors & CoSponsors
Sponsor
Hirono, Mazie K. [D-HI]
HI • D
Cosponsors
Sen. Schatz, Brian [D-HI]
HI • D
Sponsored 9/18/2025
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