Whole Farm Income Insurance in a Canadian Context
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effect crop insurance on farm income and optimum cultivation pattern in orzooieh region baft province
abstract agriculture activity is obvious type of unsafely and risky activities that this part had dealt with lack of trast about amount of production and price as unpleasant atmosphere phenomona, calamities, kind of plant diseases and change in prices. insurance is one of important cases for decreasing risk in agriculture. the main of this research is consideration crop insurance’s affect on op...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: SSRN Electronic Journal
سال: 2010
ISSN: 1556-5068
DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.1603209