Long-term yield sustainability and financial returns from grain legume-maize intercrops on a sandy soil in subhumid north central Zimbabwe

Experimental Agriculture

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 489-503

  Waddington, S R ^a,b   Mekuria, Mulugetta ^a   Siziba, S ^a   Karigwindi, J ^a  

^a CIMMYT   (Zimbabwe)

^b CIMMYT   (Bangladesh)

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CAJANUS CAJAN; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 35148899609     PISSN: 00144797     EISSN: 14694441     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0014479707005303     Document Type: Article

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