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Research Article

Empowering farmers to learn and innovate through integration of video-mediated and face-to-face extension approaches: The case of rice farmers in Uganda

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Article: 1274944 | Received 24 Nov 2016, Accepted 15 Dec 2016, Published online: 18 Jan 2017

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