Regional Differences in Crop Production at the Level of Slovakia’s Districts Between 2004 and 2022

NÉMETHOVÁ, JANA; VILINOVÁ, KATARÍNA; RYBANSKÝ, ĽUBOMÍR

Regional Differences in Crop Production at the Level of Slovakia’s Districts Between 2004 and 2022

Quaestiones Geographicae

Volume 44 (2025): Issue 2 (June 2025)

By:

JANA NÉMETHOVÁ

, KATARÍNA VILINOVÁ

and ĽUBOMÍR RYBANSKÝ

Open Access

|Jul 2025

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.14746/quageo-2025-0015 | Journal eISSN: 2081-6383 | Journal ISSN: 2082-2103

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Language: English

Page range: 33 - 44

Submitted on: Oct 17, 2024

Accepted on: Apr 10, 2025

Published on: Jul 2, 2025

Published by: Adam Mickiewicz University

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Keywords:

crop production,

regional differences,

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