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Potential To Increase Productivity And Sustainability In Argentinean Agriculture With Controlled Traffic Farming: A Short Discussion Cover

Potential To Increase Productivity And Sustainability In Argentinean Agriculture With Controlled Traffic Farming: A Short Discussion

Acta Technologica Agriculturae
Volume 18 (2015): Issue 3 (September 2015)
By: Diogenes L. Antille,  Silvia C. Imhoff,  Carlos A. Alesso,  William C. T. Chamen and  Jeff N. Tullberg  
Open Access
|Sep 2015

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/ata-2015-0016 | Journal eISSN: 1338-5267
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Language: English
Page range: 83 - 87
Published on: Sep 19, 2015
Published by: Slovak University of Agriculture in Nitra
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 4 issues per year
Keywords:
greenhouse gas emissions,
no-tillage,
random traffic,
resource use efficiency,
soil compaction,
sustainable intensification
Related subjects:
Engineering,
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