FARMS TO BE FOCUS OF TALK.Byline: Daily News LANCASTER - The chief deputy agricultural commissioner in Los Angeles County will give an overview of agribusiness at the Antelope Valley Business Outlook Conference on Feb. 24 at the Antelope Valley Fairgrounds. Chief deputy since 1999, Robert Atkins was the first agricultural official to detect a Mediterranean fruit fly Mediterranean fruit fly: see fruit fly. Mediterranean fruit fly or Med fly Fruit fly (Ceratitis capitata) proven to be particularly destructive to citrus crops, at great economic cost. , or Medfly, in California - at Venice in 1975 - and subsequently managed the fruit-fly detection and pest-prevention programs from 1981 through 1992. After managing the Weights and Measures weights and measures, units and standards for expressing the amount of some quantity, such as length, capacity, or weight; the science of measurement standards and methods is known as metrology. Bureau for seven years, he led the effort to merge weights-measures and agricultural inspection training. He laid the foundation for supermarket scanner inspection and price verification by helping legislators and county officials draft language for regulatory laws. Atkins earned a bachelor's degree in entomology entomology, study of insects, an arthropod class that comprises about 900,000 known species, representing about three fourths of all the classified animal species. and a master's in public administration from California State University Enrollment  , Long Beach. He is an alumnus ALUMNUS, civil law. A child which one has nursed; a foster child. Dig. 40, 2, 14. of the California Agricultural Leadership Program. John Kasich, a FOX News Channel host and former Ohio congressman, will be the keynote speaker for the conference, sponsored by the Antelope Valley Board of Trade. Tickets are $150 per person and $1,200 for a table of eight. Corporate sponsorships are also available. To buy tickets or for details, call (661) 942-9581 or fax (661) 723-9279. CAPTION(S): photo Photo: ATKINS |
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