Increasing crop productivity and water use efficiency in rainfed agriculture

Integrated Watershed Management in Rainfed Agriculture

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 315-347

  Singh, Piara ^a   Wani, Suhas P ^a   Pathak, Prabhakar ^a   Sahrawat, K L ^a   Singh, A K ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL CROPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR THE SEMI ARID TROPICS ICRISAT   (India)

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