Farmers Perception about gains from Integrated Pest Management Farmer Field School

Subject Areas : Agricultural Extension

Pawan Singh Bhandari ¹

1 - Agri-Economist, Monitoring and Evaluation Section, Department of Agriculture (MoAD), Hariharbhawan, Lalitpur, Nepal

Received: 2015-12-25 Accepted : 2015-12-25 Published : 2012-09-01

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