Assisting decision-making in Queensland barley production through chance constrained programming

Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 269-287

  Gali, V Jyothi ^a   Brown, Colin G ^b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND FISHERIES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BARLEY; CROP PRODUCTION; DECISION MAKING; MODELING;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 0034123866     PISSN: 1364985X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-8489.00111     Document Type: Article

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