- Author: Aubrey White
Published on: April 24, 2014
![To successfully phase out Methyl Bromide, growers will need to turn to a suite of practices](https://ucanr.edu/blogs/Green/blogfiles/21936small.jpg)
Strawberries growing near the Pacific Ocean.
Writing on Earth Day, I am reminded of one of the world's major successes in environmental protection, the Montreal Protocol. Originally signed in 1987, it works to phase out ozone-depleting substances, including the soil fumigant methyl bromide, commonly used by strawberry growers.
Twenty-seven years later, the realities of enacting the Montreal Protocol are still taking shape, and strawberry growers are, with each harvest year, a step closer to a complete phase out of the fumigant and increased restrictions on alternative chemical fumigants used for disease suppression.
UC research has focused on how to make an economically viable and effective transition away from the soil fumigant. Initial alternatives include...
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