Pest Management Practices Prescribed by Frontline Extension Workers in the Smallholder Agricultural Subsector of Kenya
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Integrated Pest Management
سال: 2018
ISSN: 2155-7470
DOI: 10.1093/jipm/pmy009