Madhab Paudel, Shrawan Kumar Sah, Andrew McDonald and Narendra Kumar Chaudhary. Soil Organic Carbon Sequestration in Rice-Wheat System under Conservation and Conventional Agriculture in Western Chitwan, Nepal.
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soil organic carbon, CA, rice-wheat system, residue retention
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