Replacing rice with soybean for sustainable agriculture in the Indo-Gangetic Plain of India: Production technology for higher productivity of soybean

International Journal of Agricultural Research

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 259-267

  Singh, Guriqbal ^a  

^a PUNJAB AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Genotypes; Plant population; Rice; Row spacing; Sowing time; Soybean

Indexed keywords

GLYCINE MAX;

EID: 77952982621     PISSN: 18164897     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3923/ijar.2010.259.267     Document Type: Article

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