Agro-economic evaluation of fertilizer recommendations for rainfed lowland rice

Field Crops Research

Volumn 119, Issue 2-3, 2010, Pages 215-224

  Haefele, S M ^a   Sipaseuth, N ^b   Phengsouvanna, V ^b   Dounphady, K ^b   Vongsouthi, S ^b  

^a INTERNATIONAL RICE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Philippines)

^b National Agriculture and Forestry Research Institute NAFRI   (Laos)

Author keywords

Agro economics; Drought; Fertilizer management; Lao People's Democratic Republic; Rainfed lowlands; Rice; Toposequence

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS; AGRICULTURAL MANAGEMENT; AGROECOLOGY; AGRONOMY; CROP YIELD; DROUGHT; FARMERS ATTITUDE; FERTILIZER APPLICATION; LOWLAND ENVIRONMENT; MANURE; NUTRIENT LIMITATION; RAINFED AGRICULTURE; RICE; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS; TOPOSEQUENCE;

LAOS;

EID: 77957122524     PISSN: 03784290     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fcr.2010.07.002     Document Type: Article

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