Preliminary analysis on economic and environmental consequences of grain production on different farm sizes in North China Plain
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DOI: 10.1016/j.agsy.2017.02.005
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Grain production; Farm size; Life cycle assessment; Economic analysis; North China Plain;All these keywords.
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