Application of Spatial Analysis in the Incidence of the Gall Midge in Jamaican Hot Pepper Production

Jamaican farmers are experiencing constraints to hot pepper (Capsicum chinense) export production due to a quarantine pest -- the gall midge (Contarinia lycopersici; Prodiplosis longifila). There is a threat of gall midge introduction into the United States, where the insect pest is not known to oc...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Williams, Ryan Williams
Other Authors: Geography
Format: Others
Published: Virginia Tech 2014
Subjects:
IPM
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10919/34155
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-07252001-110440/