Identify the Barriers to the Application of Precision Agriculture in Khouzestan Province, Iran

Subject Areas : Agricultural Extension

Atefeh Yazdanifar ¹

1 - Graduate Student, Department of Agricultural Management, Shoushtar Branch, Islamic Azad University, Shoushtar, Iran

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

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