Crop residues: Agriculture's largest harvest

BioScience

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 299-308

  Smil, Vaclav ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

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EID: 0032909333     PISSN: 00063568     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1313613     Document Type: Article

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