Factors Affecting the Development of Hazelnut Harvesting Mechanization in Guilan Province of Iran

Subject Areas : Microbiology

Saeed Firouzi ¹ , Mohammad Sadegh Allahyari ² , Faramarz Hadizadeh ³ , Vikram Koundinya ⁴

1 - Department of Agronomy, Rasht Branch, Islamic Azad University, Rasht, Iran
2 - Department of Agricultural Management, Rasht Branch, Islamic Azad University, Rasht, Iran
3 - Department of Agricultural Management, Rasht Branch, Islamic Azad University, Rasht, Iran
4 - Environmental Resources Center, University of Wisconsin-Extension, Madison, Wisconsin, USA

Received: 2017-05-17 Accepted : 2017-05-17 Published : 2017-05-01

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