Hill farming industry.
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چکیده
Ultimately, decisions about the need for, and volume of, food production from our own land resources are political ones since agriculture, in general, is dependent for a variety of reasons on substantial Government support. This is especially true of the hill areas and although it is difficult to calculate the total expenditure on agricultural support to the hills and uplands since farmers in these areas receive a proportion of the many types of grants available to other farmers, the direct grants can be identified. These have been estimated for 1971-2 (Anonymous, 1971) as
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- The Proceedings of the Nutrition Society
دوره 30 3 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1971