Biodiversity and organic agriculture: Opportunities and challenges for the north-east region of India and a model for the principles involved

Outlook on Agriculture

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 87-94

  Mandal, Subhasis ^a   Datta, K K ^a   Hore, D K ^b   Mohanty, Suchitra ^c  

^a ICAR RESEARCH COMPLEX FOR NEH REGION   (India)

^b NATIONAL BUREAU OF PLANT GENETIC RESOURCES   (India)

^c Ministry of Agriculture ^*  (India)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; India; Organic agriculture; Plant genetic resources

Indexed keywords

EID: 47649133656     PISSN: 00307270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5367/000000008784648870     Document Type: Review

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