High economic returns from companion and relay cropping of bread wheat and menthol mint in the winter-summer season in north Indian plains

Industrial Crops and Products

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 103-114

  Kumar, Sushil ^b   Bahl, J R ^a   Bansal, R P ^a   Gupta, A K ^a   Singh, V ^a   Sharma, S ^a  

^a CSIR CENTRAL INSTITUTE OF MEDICINAL AND AROMATIC PLANTS   (India)

^b JAWAHARLAL NEHRU UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Crop schedule economics; Early maturing varieties; Food grain industrial crop rotations; Menthol mint essential oil; Rotations for Indo Gangetic plain; Wheat mint co cultivation; Wheat mint relay cropping

Indexed keywords

CROP ROTATION; CROPPING PRACTICE; ECONOMICS; YIELD;

INDIA;

CAJANUS CAJAN; CICER ARIETINUM; COLUMBA; MENTHA; MENTHA ARVENSIS; OCIMUM BASILICUM; PISUM SATIVUM; TRITICUM; TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 0036180741     PISSN: 09266690     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0926-6690(01)00100-5     Document Type: Article

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