Profitability and production cost of hybrid pigeonpea seed

Electronic Journal of Plant Breeding

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 409-412

  Saxena, M K ^a   Saxena, Usha ^a   Saxena, K B ^b   Khandalkar, V S ^c   Sultana, Rafat ^b  

^a Jawaharlal Nehru Krishi Vishwa Vidhyalay   (India)

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

^c Department of Mathematics and Statistics College of Agriculture   (India)

Author keywords

Hybrid; Pigeonpea; Profitability; Seed production cost

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885904366     PISSN: None     EISSN: 0975928X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Note

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