Smallholder adoption and economic impacts of tissue culture banana in Kenya

African Journal of Biotechnology

Volumn 8, Issue 23, 2009, Pages 6548-6555

  Muyanga, Milu ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adoption; Biotechnology; Kenya; Tissue culture bananas

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BANANA; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECONOMIC ASPECT; INCOME; KENYA; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PLANT BIOTECHNOLOGY; TISSUE CULTURE BANANA BIOTECHNOLOGY; VARIETAS;

EID: 74549165525     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16845315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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