Economic return in production of lettuce and cantaloupe is affected by cropping system and management practice

HortScience

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1319-1323

  Ogbuchiekwe, Edmund J ^a   McGiffen Jr , Milton E ^a   Ngouajio, Mathieu ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cost benefit analysis; Cover crops; Organic production; Sustainable agriculture; Vegetables

Indexed keywords

CROPS; PLANTS (BOTANY); SOILS;

CROPPING SYSTEMS; INTEGRATED CROP MANAGEMENT;

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS;

ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; FARM CROPS; PLANTING; PLANTS; SOIL;

CUCUMIS; CUCUMIS MELO; LACTUCA; LACTUCA SATIVA; SORGHUM BICOLOR; SORGHUM X DRUMMONDII; VIGNA; VIGNA UNGUICULATA;

EID: 5444252675     PISSN: 00185345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.21273/hortsci.39.6.1319     Document Type: Article

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