A PC model for selecting multicropping farm machinery systems

Computers and Electronics in Agriculture

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 43-59

  Lazzari, Massimo ^a   Mazzetto, Fabrizio ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UDINE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Arable farm mechanisation; Machinery selection; Machinery system simulation

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL AUTOMATION; MACHINERY SELECTION; MECHANISATION PROBLEM; MULTICROPPING;

ITALY;

EID: 0029730263     PISSN: 01681699     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0168-1699(95)00036-4     Document Type: Article

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