Ethnic preparation of Haria, a rice-based fermented beverage, in the province of lateritic West Bengal, India

Ethnobotany Research and Applications

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 39-49

  Ghosh, Kuntal ^a   Maity, Chiranjit ^a   Adak, Atanu ^a   Halder, Suman Kumar ^a   Jana, Arijit ^a   Das, Arpan ^a   Parua, Saswati ^b   Kumar, Pradeep ^a   Mohapatra, Das ^a   Pati, Bikas Ranjan ^a   Mondal, Keshab Chandra ^a  

^a VIDYASAGAR UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b Bajkul Milani Mahavidyalaya   (India)

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