Fodder grass productivity and soil fertility changes under four grass+tree associations in Kerala, India

Agroforestry Systems

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 91-106

  Kumar, B M ^a   George, S J ^a   Suresh, T K ^a  

^a KERALA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Crown architecture; Photosynthetic photon flux density; Shade tolerance; Silvopastoralism; Understorey herbage yield

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL FOOD; CROP PRODUCTION; CROP ROTATION; FORAGE CROP; FORESTRY; HERBAGE; INDIA; PRUNING; SOIL FERTILITY;

FODDER; GRASS; PRODUCTIVITY; SOIL FERTILITY;

INDIA;

EID: 0034879208     PISSN: 01674366     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1010756018265     Document Type: Article

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