A guide to marketing costs and how to calculate them
Prepared by Andrew W. Shepherd
Marketing and Rural Finance Service
Agricultural Services Division
FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS
Rome 1993
Reprinted 1996
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