Efficient Irrigation is a Climate -smart Options
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R Lamm, F., M. O’Brien, D., & H. Rogers, D. (2015). Economic Comparison of Subsurface Drip and Center Pivot Sprinkler Irrigation Using Spreadsheet Software. Applied Engineering in Agriculture, 31(6), 929-936. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.13031/aea.31.11253
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International Year of Millets
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Reducing Emissions in Rice Production
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Northrup, D. L., Basso, B., Wang, M. Q., Morgan, C. L., & Benfey, P. N. (2021). Novel technologies for emission reduction complement conservation agriculture to achieve negative emissions from row-crop production. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118(28), e2022666118.
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Harnessing Cashew Plantations for a Greener Tomorrow, A win – win for Emission Reduction and Carbon Markets
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Research Outline
Adusei, G., Aidoo, M. K., Srivastava, A. K., Asibuo, J. Y., and Gaiser, T. (2023). Model-based climate change adaptational potential and productivity of some cowpea genotypes and its sensitivity to bias adjustment. Frontiers in Agronomy 5, 1144219.
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