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Flood-tolerant rice reduces yield variability and raises expected yield, differentially benefitting socially disadvantaged groups

Approximately 30% of the cultivated rice area in India is prone to crop damage from prolonged flooding. We use a randomized field experiment in 128 villages of Orissa India to show that Swarna-Sub1, a recently released submergence-tolerant rice variety, has significant positive impacts on rice yield...

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Autores principales: Dar, Manzoor H., de Janvry, Alain, Emerick, Kyle, Raitzer, David, Sadoulet, Elisabeth
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3837307/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24263095
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep03315