Social and natural risk factor correlation in China's fresh agricultural product supply

Xiaoyu Bian1, Guanxin Yao2, Guohong Shi1

  • 1School of Management, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang, Jiangsu, China.

Plos One
|June 3, 2020
PubMed

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