Status and financial performance of organic vegetable farming in northeast Thailand

Land Use Policy

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 456-463

  Rattanasuteerakul, Kanokporn ^a   Thapa, Gopal B ^b  

^a MAHASARAKHAM UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^b ASIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

Bio pesticides; Net income; Organic fertilizers; Organic vegetables; Promotion policies; Return to labor; Return to land; Synthetic fertilizers; Synthetic pesticides

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT; AGRICULTURAL FINANCE; AGRICULTURAL MARKET; AGRICULTURAL POLICY; ALTERNATIVE AGRICULTURE; CROP YIELD; CULTIVATION; FERTILIZER APPLICATION; ORGANIC FARMING; PESTICIDE APPLICATION; POLICY IMPLEMENTATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SUBSIDY SYSTEM; VEGETABLE;

MAHA SARAKHAM; NORTHEASTERN REGION; THAILAND;

ALLIUM CEPA; BRASSICA OLERACEA VAR. ALBOGLABRA; IPOMOEA;

EID: 80053972749     PISSN: 02648377     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2011.09.004     Document Type: Article

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