CanRisk-aversiontowardsfertilizerexplainpartofthenon-adoptionpuzzleforhybridmaize?EmpiricalevidencefromMalawi Simtowe,Franklin MunichPersonalRePEcArchive

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Can Risk-aversion towards fertilizer

explain part of the non-adoption puzzle for hybrid maize? Empirical evidence from Malawi

Simtowe, Franklin

University of Malawi

20 September 2006

Online at https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/1241/

MPRA Paper No. 1241, posted 22 Dec 2006 UTC

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