Finger millet processing in East Africa

Vegetation History and Archaeobotany

Volumn 8, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 31-34

  Young, Ruth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRADFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Charring; Crop processing; East africa; Ethnobotany; Finger millet

Indexed keywords

ELEUSINE; ELEUSINE CORACANA;

EID: 0033242883     PISSN: 09396314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02042840     Document Type: Article

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