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Strengthening Farmers’ Knowledge for Better Weed Management in Developing Countries

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-1019-9_17
 
Title Strengthening Farmers’ Knowledge for Better Weed Management in Developing Countries
 
Creator Adusumilli, N R
Malik, R K
Yadav, A
Ladha, J K
 
Subject Agriculture-Farming, Production, Technology, Economics
 
Description 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
 
Publisher Springer
 
Contributor Chauhan, B S
Mahajan, G
 
Date 2014
 
Type Book Section
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier 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