Enhancing Farmer Productive Capacity: Case of Action Research Based Conservation Agriculture

Subject Areas : Agricultural Extension

Christopher Tafara Gadzirayi ¹ , Never Mafuse ² , Vincent Munyati ³

1 - Bindura University of Science Education, Department of Agricultural Economics, Education and Extension. Zimbabwe
2 - Bindura University of Science Education, Department of Agricultural Economics, Education and Extension. Zimbabwe
3 - Bindura University of Science Education, Department of Agricultural Economics, Education and Extension. Zimbabwe

Received: 2015-12-24 Accepted : 2015-12-24 Published : 2014-07-01

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