Patent ID: 6338040
Filing Date: 2002-01-08
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
A method of encouraging and facilitating producers assisting in delaying the development in a pest species of resistance to a bio-genetic control technique directed against that species in the use of a primary asset employing that control technique, using refuges set out by individual ones of the producers, each of the refuges using a similar asset not employing that control technique and meeting conditions specified for management of the primary asset in regard to that pest species, the method comprising the steps of:entering into a policy of indemnity insurance with each of a plurality of producers on the yields of the similar asset in the refuges as against any damage to be caused by the pest species therein; facilitating the growing the primary asset in a first area and the similar asset in a second, refuge area, the first and second areas being laid out according to the conditions specified and the sizes and locations of such areas facilitating interbreeding of resistant and non-resistant members of the pest species; inspecting, measuring, and testing each of the refuge areas for compliance with the conditions specified, and, if the conditions are complied with, also inspecting and testing the refuge asset and then computing, accounting and paying to ones of said producers meeting the conditions at least part of any estimated damage caused by the pest species to the similar asset in compliant ones of the refuges, thereby avoiding economic disincentive to the producers against properly using refuges in management of the primary asset.