Economics of tractor ownership under rainfed agriculture with applications in Ghana:
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mechanization; farm inputs; Smallholders; tractor service market; firm investment theory; timeliness;All these keywords.
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-AGR-2015-01-14 (Agricultural Economics)
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