Higher Yields with Fewer External Inputs? The System of Rice Intensification and Potential Contributions to Agricultural Sustainability

International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 38-50

  Uphoff, Norman ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

Agroecology; Root systems; Soil microbiology; Sustainable agriculture; System of rice intensification (sri)

Indexed keywords

EID: 85011259457     PISSN: 14735903     EISSN: 1747762X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3763/ijas.2003.0105     Document Type: Article

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