Analyzing rainfall effects for sustainable rainfed maize productivity in foothills of Northwest Himalayas

Field Crops Research

Volumn 145, Issue , 2013, Pages 96-105

  Sharma, Anil ^a   Sankar, G R Maruthi ^b   Arora, Sanjay ^c   Gupta, Vikas ^a   Singh, Brinder ^a   Kumar, Jai ^a   Mishra, P K ^b  

^a SHER E KASHMIR UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY OF JAMMU   (India)

^b CENTRAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR DRYLAND AGRICULTURE   (India)

^c CENTRAL SOIL SALINITY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

Cost benefit ratio; Monthly rainfall; Prediction error; Rain water use efficiency; Relative production efficiency index; Sustainability yield index

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE AGRICULTURE; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; CROP PRODUCTION; CROP YIELD; LEGUME; MAIZE; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; PREDICTION; RAINWATER; WATER USE EFFICIENCY;

HIMALAYAS;

LEUCAENA; VIGNA MUNGO; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84875625873     PISSN: 03784290     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fcr.2013.02.013     Document Type: Article

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