Fruit Flies: Solutions to Food Crop Losses and Opportunities for Business Development
2017
Drew, Dick
Fruit flies are the major insect pests of fruit and vegetable production, worldwide. Indeveloping countries, fruit crop losses are so large that they contribute significantly toreduced household food security, poor human nutrition and poverty. In addition to the directcrop losses, many countries lose export trade opportunities if they have major pest fruit flyspecies, while others spend considerable sums on quarantine detection and eradicationprocedures in order to remain free of fruit fly. Indeed, fruit flies rate with some of the majoranimal diseases in terms of economic losses and quarantine problems.
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