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Chapter 16 - Soils and Slash-and-Burn Agriculture

from Part IV - Management Systems

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 January 2019

Pedro A. Sanchez
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Properties and Management of Soils in the Tropics , pp. 433 - 491
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