Use of direct marketing strategies by farmers and their impact on farm business income

Agricultural and Resource Economics Review

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-19

  Uematsu, Hiroki ^a   Mishra, Ashok K ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY AGRICULTURAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Count data; Direct marketing strategies; Gross cash income; Quantile regression

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874598193     PISSN: 10682805     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1068280500004482     Document Type: Article

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