Feasibility of on-farm commercial grain storage in the smallholder agriculture of Ethiopia

Outlook on Agriculture

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 41-47

  Getnet, Kindie ^a   Verbeke, Wim ^a   Viaene, Jacques ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Ethiopia; Farm income; Food production; Grain storage; Smallholder farmers

Indexed keywords

EID: 15744401461     PISSN: 00307270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5367/0000000053295123     Document Type: Article

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