Growing more rice with less water in Asia: Identifying and exploring opportunities through system of rice intensification

Agricultural Systems: Economics, Technology, and Diversity

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 173-192

  Mishra, Abha ^a   Salokhe, V M ^a  

^a ASIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

Agricultural water management; Farmers' Field School (FFS).; Participatory Action Research (PAR); Root growth; System of Rice Intensification (SRI)

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956448782     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: None     Document Type: Chapter

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