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One of the major cropping systems of South Asia is rice-wheat grown on 13.5 million hectares in the Indo-Gangetic Plains (IGP). It is a major system for food security in the region and provides livelihoods and income to millions of farmers and workers.
Paper presented at the 1st World Congress on Conservation Agriculture Madrid, 1–5 October, 2001
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Hobbs, P.R., Gupta, R., Malik, R.K., Dhillon, S.S. (2003). Conservation Agriculture for the Rice-Wheat Systems of the Indo- Gangetic Plains of South Asia: A Case Study from India. In: García-Torres, L., Benites, J., Martínez-Vilela, A., Holgado-Cabrera, A. (eds) Conservation Agriculture. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-1143-2_21
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