Modeling determinants of agricultural production cooperatives' performance in Iran

Agricultural Economics

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 305-314

  Karami, Ezatollah ^a   Rezaei Moghaddam, Kurosh ^a  

^a SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Iran; Modeling; Performance; Production cooperatives

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL MODELING; AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION; COOPERATIVE SECTOR; SAMPLING; THEORETICAL STUDY;

ASIA; EURASIA; IRAN; MIDDLE EAST;

EID: 33745220709     PISSN: 01695150     EISSN: 15740862     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-0864.2005.00069.x     Document Type: Article

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