Status of organic farming in India

Current Science

Volumn 98, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1190-1194

  Ramesh, P ^b   Panwar, N R ^a   Singh, A B ^a   Ramana, S ^a   Yadav, Sushil Kumar ^a   Shrivastava, Rahul ^a   Rao, A Subba ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SOIL SCIENCE   (India)

^b DIRECTORATE OF OILSEEDS RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

Economics; Organic farming; Productivity; Soil quality

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953975817     PISSN: 00113891     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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