Factors affecting maize producers adoption of forward pricing in price risk management: The case of vaalharts

Agrekon

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 548-565

  Jordaan, H ^a   Grove B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE FREE STATE   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Factor analysis; Forward pricing; Logit

Indexed keywords

EID: 77958589970     PISSN: 03031853     EISSN: 20780400     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03031853.2007.9523786     Document Type: Article

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