Sustainable tree mixtures: Optimum species combination for a tropical alfisol of southern india

Biological Agriculture and Horticulture

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 259-268

  Swaminathan, C ^a  

^a TAMIL NADU AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGROFORESTRY; ALFISOL; TREE;

(SOUTH); INDIA;

EID: 0035061279     PISSN: 01448765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01448765.2001.9754888     Document Type: Article

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