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Increasing Yields and Partial Factor Productivity of Rice Grown in Tropical Alfisols Using a Decision Support Tool

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  • 1School of Science and the Environment, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Corner Brook, Newfoundland A2H 5G4, Canada
    2Department of Soil Science, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Peradeniya, Peradeniya 20400, Sri Lanka
    3Departement of Environmental Studies and Sciences, University of Winnipeg, Winnipeg R3B 2E9, Canada
    4African Plant Nutrition Institute. Benguérir 43150, Morocco
    5Rice Research and Development Institute, Department of Agriculture, Bathalagoda 60500, Sri Lanka
Udaya W. A. Vitharana (uvithara@agri.pdn.ac.lk)

Received date: 2024-10-12

  Accepted date: 2025-05-08

  Online published: 2025-08-06

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Tharindu Nuwan Kulasinghe, Udaya W. A. Vitharana, Darshani Kumaragamage, Randombage Saman Dharmakeerthi, Kaushik Majumdar, Dinaratne Nihal Sirisena, Upul Kumari Rathnayake . Increasing Yields and Partial Factor Productivity of Rice Grown in Tropical Alfisols Using a Decision Support Tool[J]. Rice Science, 2025 , 32(4) : 453 -456 . DOI: 10.1016/j.rsci.2025.05.002

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