Principles of Plant Health and Quarantine (Cabi Publishing)

Book Description:

An understanding of international plant health management is essential in the increasingly free-trade environment of today. And administrative methods of plant pest control are of growing importance in crop production. No other recent book introduces students and practitioners to the subject of plant health and quarantine as this one does. Topics covered include: international photsanitary controls; the EU plant health regime; structure and operation of national plant protection organizations; eradication and containment; certification and marketing schemes; indexing, diagnosis and pest risk analysis.