Adoption of new tobacco varieties in Greece: Impacts of empirical findings on policy design

Agricultural Economics

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 297-307

  Dimara, Efthalia ^a   Skuras, Dimitrios ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT; AGRICULTURAL POLICY; CROP PRODUCTION; TOBACCO;

GREECE;

EID: 0032402313     PISSN: 01695150     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-5150(98)00041-3     Document Type: Article

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