Response of Onion (Allium cepa L.) to nitrogen fertilizer rates and spacing under rain fed condition at Tahtay Koraro, Ethiopia

Scientific Reports

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2018, Pages

  Gebretsadik, Kiros ^a   Dechassa, Nigussie ^b  

^a AKSUM UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

^b HARAMAYA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FERTILIZER; NITROGEN; RAIN;

AGRICULTURE; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DRUG EFFECT; ECONOMICS; ETHIOPIA; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ONION; PLANT LEAF; PROCEDURES;

AGRICULTURE; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ETHIOPIA; FERTILIZERS; NITROGEN; ONIONS; PLANT LEAVES; RAIN;

EID: 85049041709     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-27762-x     Document Type: Article

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