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Land Use Under Homestead in Kerala: The Status of Homestead Cultivation from a Village Study

This paper is an attempt to analyse the land use under homestead in the context of land-use change that has been extensively taking place in Kerala. The features of homestead gardening, its importance, the present status and the obstacles in home gardening have been given prime focus. Homesteads are...

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Autor Principal: Sr. Sheeba Andrews Elumalai Kannan
Formato: Printed Book
Publicado: Bangalore The Institute for Social and Economic Change, 2016
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Acceso en liña:http://10.26.1.76/ks/007160.pdf
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