Managing risk in agriculture through hedging and crop insurance: What does a national survey reveal?

Agricultural Finance Review

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 135-148

  Mishra, Ashok K ^a   El Osta, Hisham S ^a  

^a ECONOMIC RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Crop insurance; Education; Hedging; Risk management

Indexed keywords

EID: 74549201613     PISSN: 00021466     EISSN: 20416326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00214930280001134     Document Type: Article

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