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Attention to detail and the quality of work done are crucial to success in agriculture. Many different factors all combine to influence results so that the cumulative effect of even slight improvements in the execution of each decision can be large.
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Dalton, G.E. (1982). Implementation. In: Managing Agricultural Systems. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-7355-8_8
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