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Title: Officials quick to react to fruit flies.
Author: Rick Bell
Publication: San Diego Business Journal (Magazine/Journal)
Date: December 9, 2002
Publisher: CBJ, L.P.
Volume: 23 Issue: 49 Page: 38(1)Distributed by Thompson Gale

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Since the first Mexican fruit flies were found in a Valley Center citrus grove on Nov. 21, county, state and federal officials have scrambled to contain a disaster that could cripple the local agricultural industry.

Shortly after the discovery of the pests in inland North County, agricultural officials pegged the potential damage at $75 million. Three weeks later, that calculation essentially remains the same.

That's a devastating figure, to be sure. Some citrus and avocado farmers and ranchers will lose an entire year's worth of work. And the economic effects of quarantine under way in North County will last well into 2003.