Factors Affecting Structure, Conduct and Performance of Livestock Markets in Butana Area, Sudan

Subject Areas : Socio-Economics

Hala Ahmed Hassan Mohammed ¹ , Abdelaziz Abdelfattah Hashim ² , Babo Fadlalla ³ , Siegfried Bauer ⁴ , Sahar Ezzat ⁵

1 - Sudan University of Science and Technology, College of Forestry & Range Sciences, Department of Range Science
2 - Agricultural Research Corporation (ARC), Agricultural Economics and Policy Research Center
3 - Sudan University of Science and Technology, College of Forestry & Range Sciences, Department of Range Science
4 - Justus-Liebig University Giessen, Dept. of Project and Regional Planning
5 - Sudan University of Science and Technology, College of Forestry & Range Sciences, Department of Range Science

Received: 2016-11-18 Accepted : 2017-02-10 Published : 2017-07-01

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