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Socioeconomics, planning, and management

Traditional knowledge on shifting cultivation of local communities in Bago Mountains, Myanmar

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Pages 347-353 | Received 17 Sep 2019, Accepted 29 Apr 2020, Published online: 18 May 2020

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