California Agriculture (Sep 1992)

Whitefly invasion in Imperial Valley costs growers, workers millions in losses

  • R Gonzalez,
  • G Goldman,
  • E Natwick,
  • H Rosenberg,
  • J Grieshop,
  • S Sutter,
  • T Funakoshi,
  • S Davila-Garcia

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 46, no. 5

Abstract

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Two years of sweetpotato whitefly infestations in Imperial County have resulted in huge losses to growers of melons and Cole crops and in high unemployment among farmworkers. The economic impact on the county is analyzed here.