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Upland paddy

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IJERD – International Journal of Environmental and Rural Development (2012) 3-1(9 pt, Italic)

Nitrogen loss (g/m2)

Figures: (11 pt, bold***) Place figure captions below all figures. When citing a figure in the text,
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REFERENCES (11 pt, bold*)
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Doore, S. J. 2005. Prioritization of micro-watersheds of upper bhama basin on the basis of soil erosion risk
using remote sensing and gis. Ph.D. dissertation, Department of Geography, University of Pune, India.
Mihara, M. 2005. The effect of natural weed buffer on soil and nitrogen losses in Japan. Catena, 65, 265-271.
Morgan, R.P.C. 1995. Soil erosion and conservation, Second ed. Longman group, UK Limited, UK.
Muhammad, A., Kita, I., Soichi, N., and Yano, A. 2006. A decision support system for real-time waterlevelmanagement. Int. Conf. on Hydrol. Sci., China, 1-8.
Renard, K.G., Freimund, J.R. 1994. Using monthly precipitation data to estimate the R factor in the revised
USLE. J. Hydrol, 157, 287-306. (10 pt, single spaced)Ⓒ ISERD

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IJERD – International Journal of Environmental and Rural Development (2012) 3-1(9 pt, Italic)*Notes on references-References to published work should be referred to in the text by the last name(s) of author(s)followed by the year of publication in parentheses. For example, one may write "weed buffer isvery effective in minimizing soil and nitrogen losses (Mihara, 2005) ".
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