Farmers’ preference for onion varieties and implications of knowledge of Iris yellow spot disease in Kenya

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عنوان ژورنال: African Crop Science Journal

سال: 1970

ISSN: 2072-6589,1021-9730

DOI: 10.4314/acsj.v29i2.4