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Are Tomato-Spotted Wilt Virus Management Tactics Good Enough?

Sebastain Awondo, Esendugue Fonsah (gfonsah@uga.edu) and David G. Riley

No 119790, 2012 Annual Meeting, February 4-7, 2012, Birmingham, Alabama from Southern Agricultural Economics Association

Abstract: Management of tomato-spotted wilt virus is complex and requires more than one treatment for near optimum results. We investigated tomato and pepper growers’ perception on the effectiveness of tactics using Bayesian Logistic regression. The perceived chance that each tactics will control the disease was about a coin toss.

Keywords: Agricultural and Food Policy; Crop Production/Industries; Farm Management; Food Security and Poverty; Production Economics; Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies; Risk and Uncertainty (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 13
Date: 2012-01-17
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.119790

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