Review of yield gap explaining factors and opportunities for alternative data collection approaches

European Journal of Agronomy

Volumn 82, Issue , 2017, Pages 206-222

  Beza, Eskender ^a   Silva, João Vasco ^a   Kooistra, Lammert ^a   Reidsma, Pytrik ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Actual yield; Benchmarking; Crowdsourcing; Data collection; Potential yield; Yield variability

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL MANAGEMENT; AGRONOMY; BENCHMARKING; BIOPHYSICS; CROP YIELD; DATA ACQUISITION; EXPERT SYSTEM; FERTILIZER APPLICATION; INTENSIVE AGRICULTURE; LITERATURE REVIEW; SOCIOECONOMIC CONDITIONS; SOIL FERTILITY; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

AFRICA; ASIA;

EID: 84994093861     PISSN: 11610301     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eja.2016.06.016     Document Type: Article

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