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Research Articles

Managing soil potassium through green manuring with gliricidia for improving cotton yield and quality of shrink-swell soils of Central India

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Pages 3499-3518 | Received 31 Jan 2022, Accepted 18 Apr 2023, Published online: 02 May 2023

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