Bt cotton yields and performance data and methodological issues

Economic and Political Weekly

Volumn 48, Issue 33, 2013, Pages 66-69

  Chandrasekhara Rao, N ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ECONOMIC GROWTH   (India)

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