The trade-off between total harvestable production and concentration of the economically useful yield component: Cane tonnage and sugar content

Field Crops Research

Volumn 67, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 257-262

  Cock, James H ^a   Luna, Carlos A ^a   Palma, Alberto ^a  

^a Natl Center for Sugar Cane Research   (Colombia)

Author keywords

Economic evaluation; Model; Processing; Selection; Sugarcane

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034632954     PISSN: 03784290     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-4290(00)00100-3     Document Type: Article

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