Nutrient use efficiencies and crop responses to N, P and manure applications in Zimbabwean soils: Exploring management strategies across soil fertility gradients

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  2007

• Venue

  Field Crops Research

• Publication date

  2007-02-01

• Fields of study

  Agricultural and Food Sciences, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1016/J.FCR.2006.09.003
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