The Real Cost of HLB in Florida
EDIS Cover Volume 2019 Peer reviewed articles in Citrus Industry Magazine
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Keywords

Economics
Production
Research

How to Cite

Singerman, Ariel. 2019. “The Real Cost of HLB in Florida”. EDIS 2019 (July). Gainesville, FL. https://journals.flvc.org/edis/article/view/114459.

Abstract

I estimated the cultural cost per acre of managing HLB in orange citrus groves in Florida to be $663, which represents a 67% increase compared to pre-HLB levels. However, and perhaps more importantly, the real cultural cost of production per box increased by 283% during the same period due to the simultaneous increase in cost per acre and decrease in yield. As a consequence of the multiple challenges growers are currently facing (chiefly, those imposed by HLB), the number of growers decreased from 7,389 in 2002 to 2,775 in 2017.
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