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Marketing boards, agricultural marketing, state trading enterprises, statutory marketing authorities, parastatals contents 1. Analysis of survey results one of the major problems facing the united states economy is its massive trade deficit. Market planning for valueadded agricultural products. Marketing of agricultural produce among rural farm. This textbook, agricultural and food marketing management, was prepared by staff of the network and centre for agricultural marketing training in eastern and southern africa. Definition of agricultural marketing according to the national commission on agriculture xii report, 1976, agricultural marketing is a process which starts. Choices that impacted the methods and results of the working group the theme of market access and agricultural product marketing being extremely vast, choices were made to selectively limit the.
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