Productivity trends in intensive rice-wheat cropping systems in Asia

Improving the Productivity and Sustainability of Rice-Wheat Systems: Issues and Impacts

Volumn 65, Issue , 2015, Pages 45-76

  Ladha, Jagdish K ^a   Pathak, Himanshu ^b   Tiroi Padre, Agnes ^a   Dawe, David ^a   Gupta, Raj K ^c  

^a INTERNATIONAL RICE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Philippines)

^b INDIAN AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

^c CIMMYT India   (India)

Author keywords

China; Food security; Indo Gangetic Plains; Long term rice wheat experiments; Rice wheat cropping systems; Rice wheat productivity trends; South Asia; Yield gaps; Yield stagnation

Indexed keywords

EID: 85102160290     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.2134/asaspecpub65.c3     Document Type: Chapter

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