Communication and socio-personal factors influencing adoption of dairy farming technologies amongst livestock farmers

Livestock Research for Rural Development

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2007, Pages

  Rezvanfar, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

Adoption behavior; Communication; Dairy farming technologies adoption; Livestock owner

Indexed keywords

EID: 33847610107     PISSN: None     EISSN: 01213784     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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