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Conversion of Potato Fields into Small Tea Plantations at Bhotepatty, Mainaguri: Consequences of This Shifting Agriculture Through Survey and Soil Analysis Cover

Conversion of Potato Fields into Small Tea Plantations at Bhotepatty, Mainaguri: Consequences of This Shifting Agriculture Through Survey and Soil Analysis

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|Nov 2023

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/contagri-2023-0013 | Journal eISSN: 2466-4774 | Journal ISSN: 0350-1205
Language: English
Page range: 98 - 106
Submitted on: Apr 3, 2023
Accepted on: May 19, 2023
Published on: Nov 16, 2023
Published by: University of Novi Sad
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 4 issues per year

© 2023 Dipankar Das, Soumya Majumder, Sahadeb Sarkar, Arindam Ghosh, Sudeshna Nandi, Preeti Subba, Sumedha Saha, Sukanya Acharyya, Baishakhi Ghosh, Sourav Chakraborty, Malay Bhattacharya, published by University of Novi Sad
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