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A mathematical model for pest management in Jatropha curcas with integrated pesticides - An optimal control approach
- Source :
- Ecological Complexity. 37:24-31
- Publication Year :
- 2019
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2019.
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Abstract
- This paper presents the formulation and analysis of a mathematical model for Jatropha curcas plantation with a view to control its natural pests using application of integrated pesticides. Bio-pesticides are costly, require a long term process and expensive to impose. But if chemical pesticides are introduced in the farming system along with bio-pesticide, the process will be faster as well as cost effective. Here, we study the control of pests using integrated approach i.e. using combination of bio-pesticides and chemical pesticides. We identify the parameter for which stability switches may occur. Finally, optimal concentration profile of both pesticides have been determined using optimal control theory to minimize it negative effects and also to make the process cost effective. Numerical simulations justify the main results.
- Subjects :
- 0106 biological sciences
Integrated pest management
biology
business.industry
Process (engineering)
Computer science
010604 marine biology & hydrobiology
Ecological Modeling
Stability (learning theory)
Pesticide
biology.organism_classification
Optimal control
010603 evolutionary biology
01 natural sciences
Agriculture
Process costing
Biochemical engineering
business
Jatropha curcas
Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 1476945X
- Volume :
- 37
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Ecological Complexity
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........2f0799a0efc3994470cde7a5333c5752