Strengthening Farmers’ Knowledge for Better Weed Management in Developing Countries
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http://oar.icrisat.org/8263/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-1019-9_17 |
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Strengthening Farmers’ Knowledge for Better Weed Management in Developing Countries
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Adusumilli, N R
Malik, R K Yadav, A Ladha, J K |
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Agriculture-Farming, Production, Technology, Economics
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Of more than 3 billion people (nearly half of the world’s population) who live in rural areas, around 2.5 billion derive their livelihoods from agriculture [1], which remains crucial to developing countries and their economies for meeting the demands of affordable food, feed, energy, and the security of their populations. Approximately, three quarters of the world’s agricultural value is generated in developing countries and, in many of these, the agriculture sector contributes as much as 30 % to gross domestic product (GDP). It has been observed that GDP growth from agriculture benefits the incomes of poor people two to four times more than the |
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Springer
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Chauhan, B S
Mahajan, G |
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2014
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Book Section
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application/pdf
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en
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http://oar.icrisat.org/8263/1/ch17.pdf
Adusumilli, N R and Malik, R K and Yadav, A and Ladha, J K (2014) Strengthening Farmers’ Knowledge for Better Weed Management in Developing Countries. In: Recent Advances in Weed Management. Springer, pp. 391-405. ISBN 978-1-4939-1018-2 |
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