Ecological vegetable production and tourism - Case study for Croatia

Journal of Food, Agriculture and Environment

Volumn 7, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 799-803

  Oplanić, Milan ^a   Ban, Dean ^a   Bošković, Desimir ^a   Par, Vjekoslav ^b   Žnidarčič, Dragan ^c  

^a Institute of Agriculture and Tourism   (Croatia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Ecological production; Prices; Tourist market; Vegetables

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; ARTICLE; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; CROATIA; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; FOOD INDUSTRY;

EID: 73949100311     PISSN: 14590255     EISSN: 14590263     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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