Adoption of minimum tillage practices: Some empirical evidence

Swedish Journal of Agricultural Research

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 29-38

  Lexmon, Åsa ^a   Andersson, Hans ^b  

^a Swedish Farmers Meat Marketing Organization   (Sweden)

^b SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Adoption; Household model; Minimum tillage

Indexed keywords

EID: 0007221550     PISSN: 00492701     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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