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Influence of mucuna fallow crop on selected soil properties, weed suppression and taro yields in Taveuni, Fiji

Article number

1118_13

Pages

89 – 94

Language

English

Abstract

Publication

XXIX International Horticultural Congress on Horticulture: Sustaining Lives, Livelihoods and Landscapes (IHC2014): International Symposium on Root and Tuber Crops: Sustaining Lives and Livelihoods into the Future

Authors

R. Lal, D.F. Guinto, M. Smith

Keywords

mucuna (Mucuna pruriens), taro (Colocasia esculenta), fallow crop, soil health, weeds, yields

Full text

https://doi.org/10.17660/ActaHortic.2016.1118.13

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