Agricultural innovations for sustainable crop production intensification
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Sustainable intensification of crop production
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عنوان ژورنال: Italian Journal of Agronomy
سال: 2012
ISSN: 2039-6805,1125-4718
DOI: 10.4081/ija.2012.e40