Allocative Efficiency of Smallholder Cocoyam Farmers in South-South, Nigeria
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عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Environment, Agriculture and Biotechnology
سال: 2016
ISSN: 2456-1878
DOI: 10.22161/ijeab/1.4.24