Soil and land quality indicators of the Indo-Gangetic Plains of India

Current Science

Volumn 107, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 1470-1486

  Ray, S K ^a   Bhattacharyya, T ^a   Reddy, K R ^b   Pal, D K ^c   Chandran, P ^a   Tiwary, P ^a   Mandal, D K ^a   Mandal, C ^a   Prasad, J ^a   Sarkar, D ^a   Venugopalan, M V ^d   Velmourougane, K ^d   Sidhu, G S ^a   Nair, K M ^a   Sahoo, A K ^a   Das, T H ^a   Singh, R S ^a   Srivastava, R ^a   Sen, T K ^a   Chatterji, S ^a   Patil, N G ^a   Obireddy, G P ^a   Mahapatra, S K ^a   Anil Kumar, K S ^a   Das, K ^a   Reza, S K ^a   Dutta, D ^a   Srinivas, S ^a   Karthikeyan, K ^a   Srivastava, A ^e   Raychaudhuri, M ^f   Kundu, D K ^f   Dongare, V T ^a   Balbuddhe, D ^a   Bansod, N G ^a   Wadhai, K ^a   Lokhande, M ^a   Kolhe, A ^a   Kuchankar, H ^a   Durge, S L ^a   Kamble, G K ^a   Gaikwad, M S ^a   Nimkar, A M ^a   Bobade, S V ^a   Anantwar, S G ^a   Patil, S ^a   Sahu, V T ^a   Sheikh, S ^a   Dasgupta, D ^a   Telpande, B A ^a   Nimje, A M ^a   Likhar, C ^a   Thakre, S ^a   Mandal, K G ^e   Kar, G ^e   Gaikwad, K M ^a   Bhondwe, H ^a   Dohtre, S S ^a   Gharami, S ^a   Khapekar, S G ^a   Koyal, A ^d   Suatha, ^d   Reddy, B M N ^d   Sreekumar, P ^d   Dutta, D P ^a   Gogoi, L ^a   Parhad, V N ^a   Halder, A S ^a   Basu, R ^a   Singh, R ^a   Jat, B L ^a   Oad, D L ^a   Ola, N R ^a   Hukare, A ^a   Khuspure, J ^a   Sunitha, B P ^d   Mohanty, B ^c   Hazarika, D ^a   Majumdar, S ^a   Garhwal, R S ^a   Sahu, A ^a   Mahapatra, S ^f   Puspamitra, S ^f   Kumar, A ^a   Gautam, N ^a   more..

^a ICAR NATIONAL BUREAU OF SOIL SURVEY AND LAND USE PLANNING   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

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

^d CENTRAL INSTITUTE FOR COTTON RESEARCH   (India)

^e ICAR NATIONAL BUREAU OF AGRICULTURALLY IMPORTANT MICROORGANISMS   (India)

^f ICAR INDIAN INSTITUTE OF WATER MANAGEMENT   (India)

Author keywords

Land quality index; Principal component analysis; Soil quality and health

Indexed keywords

EID: 84910602177     PISSN: 00113891     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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