Competitive market analysis: Chestnut producers

HortTechnology

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 360-369

  Gold, Michael A ^a   Cernusca, Mihaela M ^a   Godsey, Larry D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Castanea spp.; Market survey; Marketing; Porter five forces model; Value chain

Indexed keywords

CASTANEA;

EID: 33645542854     PISSN: 10630198     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.21273/horttech.16.2.0360     Document Type: Article

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