Analysis of enset (Ensete ventricosum) indigenous production methods and farm-based biodiversity in major enset-growing regions of southern Ethiopia

Experimental Agriculture

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 291-315

  Tsegaye, A ^a,b   Struik, P C ^b  

^a Awassa College of Agriculture   (Ethiopia)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATOSTOMIDAE; ENSETE; ENSETE VENTRICOSUM;

EID: 0036658013     PISSN: 00144797     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0014479702003046     Document Type: Article

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