Profitability of cassava-maize production under different fallow systems and land-use intensities in the derived savanna of southwest Nigeria

Experimental Agriculture

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 51-63

  Chianu, J N ^a   Akintola, J O ^b   Kormawa, P M ^a  

^a c/o L W Lambourn and Co ^*  (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IBADAN   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEUCAENA LEUCOCEPHALA; MANIHOT; MANIHOT ESCULENTA; PUERARIA; PUERARIA PHASEOLOIDES; ZEA; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 0036383342     PISSN: 00144797     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0014479702000157     Document Type: Article

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