Rainwater harvesting agriculture: An integrated system for water management on rainfed land in China's semiarid areas

Ambio

Volumn 29, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 477-483

  Li, F ^a   Cook, S ^a   Geballe, G T ^a   Burch W R , Jr ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HARVESTING; INTEGRATED APPROACH; RAINFED AGRICULTURE; WATER MANAGEMENT;

CHINA; GANSU PROVINCE;

EID: 0034494109     PISSN: 00447447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1579/0044-7447-29.8.477     Document Type: Article

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