Agricultural prices and production in post-reform India

Agricultural Prices and Production in Post-Reform India

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 1-312

  Tripathi, Ashutosh Kumar ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT ROHTAK   (India)

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