Crop residues: Agriculture's largest harvest - Crop residues incorporate more than half of the world agricultural phytomass
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- 31 March 1999
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in BioScience
- Vol. 49 (4), 299-308
- https://doi.org/10.2307/1313613
Abstract
Crop residues have always been used in many ways. They have been an important source of household fuel and building material in many low-income countries (FigurKeywords
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