Unravelling crop water productivity of tef (eragrostis tef (Zucc.) trotter) through Aquacrop in Northern Ethiopia

Experimental Agriculture

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 222-237

  Tsegay, Alemtsehay ^a,b   Raes, Dirk ^b   Geerts, Sam ^b   Vanuytrecht, Eline ^b   Abraha, Berhanu ^a   Deckers, Jozef ^b   Bauer, Hans ^c,d   Gebrehiwot, Kindeya ^a  

^a MEKELLE UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c VLIR UOS Ethiopia   (Ethiopia)

^d NONE   (Ethiopia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERAGROSTIS; ERAGROSTIS TEF;

EID: 84858285200     PISSN: 00144797     EISSN: 14694441     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0014479711001153     Document Type: Article

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