Maize and winter wheat production with different soil tillage systems on silty loam

Agricultural and Food Science in Finland

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 81-90

  Košutić, Silvio ^a   Filipović, Dubravko ^a   Gospodarić, Zlatko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Conservation tillage; Conventional tillage; Energy requirement; Labour requirement; No till; Reduced tillage; Yield

Indexed keywords

EID: 0041079164     PISSN: 12390992     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.23986/afsci.5686     Document Type: Article

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