Groundnut, maize and cassava yields in mixed-food crop fields after calliandra tree fallow in Southern Cameroon

Experimental Agriculture

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 21-37

  Nolte, C ^a,c   Tiki Manga, T ^b   Badjel Badjel, S ^b   Gockowski, J ^a   Hauser, S ^a  

^a Agric Humid Forest Ecoregional C   (Nigeria)

^b INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH FOR DEVELOPMENT IRAD   (Cameroon)

^c c/o Lambourn ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARACHIS HYPOGAEA; CALLIANDRA; EMBRYOPHYTA; MANIHOT ESCULENTA; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 13544266352     PISSN: 00144797     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0014479704002145     Document Type: Article

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