Entrepreneurial Innovation and Mechanization Adoption among Wheat Farmers in Pakistan
By: Atif Zahoor and Lei Wang
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.17306/j.jard.2026.3.00029r1 | Journal eISSN: 1899-5772 | Journal ISSN: 1899-5241
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