Rice-Wheat Cropping Systems of the Indo-Gangetic Plain of India

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Rice-Wheat Consortium Paper Series 11 Rice-Wheat Cropping Systems of the Indo-Gangetic Plain of India R S Narang and S M Virmani Rice-Wheat Consortium for the Indo-Gangetic Plains CG Block, National Agricultural Science Centre (NASC) Complex, DPS Marg, Pusa Campus, New Delhi 110 012, India International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics Patancheru 502 324, Andhra Pradesh, India 2001
Acknowledgements The authors would like to profusely thank Chris Johansen for his initiative and efforts in getting the manuscript to its final shape. They wish to acknowledge K S Prasad and K Srinivas of Cartography Unit/Agroclimatology, ICRISAT who helped in developing and updating the maps and figures in this publication, and J Nalini for word processing and handling the manuscript at all stages of its revision. Finally, the authors would like to thank the help provided by C L L Gowda (current Project Manager of the ADB-funded project) and Raj K. Gupta (Facilitator of the Rice-Wheat Consortium for the Indo-Gangetic Plains) in bringing out this publication.
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