Closing yield gaps in China by empowering smallholder farmers

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• Publication year

  2016

• Venue

  Nature

• Publication date

  2016-09-07

• Fields of study

  Agricultural and Food Sciences, Medicine, Business

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  DOI 10.1038/nature19368PMID 27602513
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