The Economics of Controlling Insect-Transmitted Plant Diseases |
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| Authors: | Cheryl Brown Lori Lynch & David Zilberman |
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| Institution: | Department of Agriculture, Southeast Missouri State University,;Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of Maryland, College Park,;Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California, Berkeley |
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| Abstract: | A framework is developed to analyze a spatially dependent economically significant pest problem emanating from a source and spreading via a carrier such as an insect. Transmission and/or source control to combat the pest or disease problem are explored. Alternative assumptions about the effectiveness of transmission control and the feasibility and costs, both social and private, of reduction of the pest population at the source are examined in an application of the model to controlling Pierce's disease in California wine grapes. |
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| Keywords: | biological control insect-transmitted plant disease pierce's disease spatial model |
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