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Articles

Efficiency through innovation^©

Article number

1140_90

Pages

401 – 404

Language

English

Abstract

INTRODUCTION
Today, labor is the most premium product and there are four factors that affect the cost of labor:

Salary
Training
Insurance
Accidents/injuries

Publication

Proceedings of the 2015 Annual Meeting of the International Plant Propagators’ Society

Authors

J. Harden

Keywords

Full text

https://doi.org/10.17660/ActaHortic.2016.1140.90

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