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Agricultural input shops

Year of publication 2012

Pages 12p.

Author Herman,G.

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Document

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) This good practice fact sheet is aimed at actors interested in agricultural input shops, especially umbrella and grassroots producers’ organizations (POs), men and women farmers, as well as partners and other development stakeholders. The purpose of this fact sheet is to promote the use of agricultural input shops as a good agricultural practice and to encourage producers’ organizations and development stakeholders to adopt this technique for distributing inputs, so as to ensure better availabil ity for men and women farmers.

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