The Economics of Controlling Insect-Transmitted Plant Diseases

Cheryl Brown, Lori Lynch and David Zilberman

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2002, vol. 84, issue 2, 279-291

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. Copyright 2002, Oxford University Press.

Date: 2002
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