Adoption of dairy production technologies and implications for dairy development in India

Outlook on Agriculture

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 134-140

  Basunathe, V K ^a   Sawarkar, S W ^a   Sasidhar, P V K ^b  

^a NAGPUR VETERINARY COLLEGE   (India)

^b INDIRA GANDHI NATIONAL OPEN UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Adoption behaviour; Dairy development; Dairy production technologies; India

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955602963     PISSN: 00307270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5367/000000010791745385     Document Type: Article

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