Impact of Contract Farming on Smallholder Poultry Farmers’ Income in Kenya
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Agribusiness; Institutional and Behavioral Economics;NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-AFR-2012-07-23 (Africa)
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