Assessment of soil and plant analysis laboratories in the west asia- north africa region

Communications in Soil Science and Plant Analysis

Volumn 30, Issue 5-6, 1999, Pages 885-894

  Ryan, John ^a   Garabet, Sonia ^a   Rashid, Abdul ^b   El Gharous, Mohamed ^c  

^a INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH IN THE DRY AREAS ICARDA   (Syrian Arab Republic)

^b NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (Pakistan)

^c Centre Regional de la Recherche Agronomique de Settat   (Morocco)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FERTILIZER;

AGRICULTURAL TECHNOLOGY; INFORMATION SYSTEM; PLANT; SOIL ANALYSIS;

AGRICULTURE; ARTICLE; ASIA; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; LABORATORY; NORTH AFRICA; PLANT; QUALITY CONTROL; SOIL;

(NORTH); (WEST); AFRICA; ASIA;

EID: 0032913271     PISSN: 00103624     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00103629909370253     Document Type: Article

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