The Role of Plant-Breeding R&D in Tractor Adoption among Smallholders in Asia: Insights from Nepal Terai
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tractor adoptions; smallholders; agroclimatic similarity; agricultural census; Nepal; smallholders; high-yield technologies; mechanization; agroclimatic; farmers’ and plant breeding institutes’;All these keywords.
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