Crop productivity and land-use efficiency of a teff/faba bean mixed cropping system in a tropical highland environment

Experimental Agriculture

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 495-504

  Agegnehu, Getachew ^a   Ghizaw, Amare ^a   Sinebo, Woldeyesus ^a  

^a ETHIOPIAN INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH   (Ethiopia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERAGROSTIS; ERAGROSTIS TEF; VICIA FABA;

EID: 33750350807     PISSN: 00144797     EISSN: 14694441     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0014479706003863     Document Type: Article

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