Hybrid rice for tomorrow's food security: can the Chinese miracle be replicated in other countries?
The growth in rice production in Asia fell from 2.6% between 1966 and 1990 to 1.4% during the 1990s, mainly due to a deceleration in yield growth in the most intensively irrigated environments, where farm-level yields had already reached about 6.0 t ha–1. At this threshold of yields, farmers require...
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| Format: | Journal Article |
| Language: | Inglés |
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SAGE Publications
2002
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| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/166981 |
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