Nutrient budgeting in tropical agro ecosystem-modeling district scale soil nutrient balance in Western Zone of Tamil Nadu using nutmon-toolbox

International Journal of Soil Science

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 159-170

  Surendran, U ^a,b   Murugappan, V ^a  

^a TAMIL NADU AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b EID Parry India Limited   (India)

Author keywords

Fertilizers; Inputs; Manures; NUTMON; Nutrient balance; Outputs

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ECOSYSTEM; FERTILIZER; MANURE; MONITORING SYSTEM; NUTRIENT BUDGET; SOIL NUTRIENT; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT;

ASIA; EURASIA; INDIA; SOUTH ASIA; TAMIL NADU;

EID: 35148890636     PISSN: 18164978     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3923/ijss.2007.159.170     Document Type: Article

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