“…Fifth, looking at the problem from the point of view of economics, we are motivated to study optimal harvesting strategies of the herbivore population in the present modeling framework and/ or relevant modifications using a time-discounting policy to handle the question of long-term benefits. Similar problems in the optimal management of natural resources, which are directly related to a sustainable development, have been studied extensively by many authors (see, e.g., Dubey & Patra, 2013;Kar, 2003;Leung, 1995;Paul et al, 2016). This type of study leads to optimal control problems that are typically investigated by using Pontryagin's maximal principle (Pontryagin, Boltyanskii, Gamkrelidze, & Mishchenko, 1962).…”