CIMMYT. Assessing the impact of natural resource management research: The case of zero tillage in India's rice-wheat systems

International Research on Natural Resource Management: Advances in Impact Assessment

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 68-90

  Laxmi, Vijay ^a   Erenstein, Olaf ^b   Gupta, Raj K ^b  

^a INDIRA GANDHI INSTITUTE OF DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH   (India)

^b NASC Complex   (India)

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