Are Mountain Farmers Slow to Adopt New Technologies?
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عنوان ژورنال: Mountain Research and Development
سال: 2004
ISSN: 0276-4741,1994-7151
DOI: 10.1659/0276-4741(2004)024[0114:amfsta]2.0.co;2