Homegarden-based indigenous fruit tree production in peninsular India

Indigenous Fruit Trees in the Tropics: Domestication, Utillization and Commercialization

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 84-99

  Kumar, B M ^a  

^a KERALA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (India)

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