Cost-effective fruit fly (Tephritidae) management measures to facilitate export of South Africa’s deciduous fruit: area-wide or field-by-field?

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Henrique Manhique, Pia Addison, Gerard Francois Hermanus van Ginkel Bekker, and 1 more This is a preprint; it has not been peer reviewed by a journal. https://doi.org/ 10.21203/rs.3.rs-7300626/v1 This work is licensed under a CC BY 4.0 License Status: Posted Version 1 posted You are reading this latest preprint version Abstract Fruit flies (Tephritidae) are major pests worldwide, contributing to significant damage of fruit and vegetable crops, as well as causing quarantine issues with export produce. This paper analyses the cost-effectiveness of two approaches to manage economically-significant fruit fly pest of deciduous fruits in South Africa, namely, area-wide (AW) and field-by-field (FF) integrated pest management (IPM), to facilitate South African deciduous fruit exports to the EU market. Cost-effectiveness addresses the following question: which pest management approach is able to achieve the goal of exporting fruits to the EU in terms of pest control at lower costs? We develop a costing framework to compare the costs of the two pest management approaches and apply it to production areas implementing AW-IPM and FF-IPM in the Western Cape province, South Africa. Our results indicate that given the existing situation in South Africa, the costs of AW-IPM are substantially lower than the costs of FF-IPM. Agricultural Economics and Policy Entomology Agroecology Development Economics Costs Sterile insect technique Bait application technique Costing framework Integrated pest management Ceratitis capitata Full Text Additional Declarations The authors declare no competing interests. Supplementary Files ManhiqueetalSupplementarymaterial.docx Supplementary Material Cite Share Download PDF Status: Posted Version 1 posted You are reading this latest preprint version Research Square lets you share your work early, gain feedback from the community, and start making changes to your manuscript prior to peer review in a journal. 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