Right problem and options

What is your problem and what are your options?

When you are thinking about interventions, make sure that you understand what the problem is and what your choices are.

To make a good decision, you need to understand what the problem is (e.g. potential pest or disease infection, or not obtaining maximum yield), how likely you are to be impacted by it, and what your choices are for addressing that problem.

First, you need to know what interventions are available for the problem you are trying to address or avoid, and how likely you are to have that problem.

After that, you (or your advisors) need to know what interventions there are for the problem you have or are trying to avoid.

Some decisions need to be made by groups of people, for example if the problem is what to do about how to stop a disease such as foot and mouth spreading. For those decisions, the people involved need to first make sure they understand what the problem is and how important it is. Then they need to know what interventions (options) there are for the problem.

REMEMBER: Make sure that you understand what your problem is and what your choices are.