Small-scale Farmers’ Attitude and Problems regarding One House One Farm Approach for their Livelihoods Improvement

Subject Areas : Agricultural Extension

Md. Golam Farouque ¹ , Md. Mojammel Haque ² , Debashish Sarker Dev ³

1 - Professor of Agricultural Extension Education Department, Bangladesh Agricultural University, Mymensingh
2 - Associate Professor of Graduate Training Institute, Bangladesh Agricultural University, Mymensingh
3 - Assistant Professor of Agricultural Extension Education Department, Bangladesh Agricultural University, Mymensingh

Received: 2018-02-08 Accepted : 2018-12-16 Published : 2018-12-01

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