Dissemination of precision farming in Germany: Acceptance, adoption, obstacles, knowledge transfer and training activities

Precision Agriculture

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 525-545

  Reichardt, M ^a   Jurgens C ^a   Kloble U ^b   Huter J ^b   Moser, K ^c  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^b Association for Technology and Structures in Agriculture KTBL   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adoption; Surveys; Training activities; Transfer

Indexed keywords

EID: 79953782320     PISSN: 13852256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11119-009-9112-6     Document Type: Article

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