Economic importance of tropical and subtropical fruits

Postharvest Biology and Technology of Tropical and Subtropical Fruits

Volumn 1, Issue , 2011, Pages 1-20

  Mohamed, Z ^a   AbdLatif, I ^a   Abdullah, A Mahir ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY PUTRA MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Consumption; Elasticities; Employment; GDP; Prices; Producers; Subtropical fruits; Tropical

Indexed keywords

EID: 84904033190     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1533/9780857093622.1     Document Type: Chapter

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