Original Article

Beyond Yield: Integrating Ecosystem Services and Digital Regenerative Agriculture for Sustainable Food Systems

Year: 2026 | Month: June | Volume 13 | Issue 1

Prithusayak Mondal1* Amrita Kumar Sarkar2  Jayashree Dey Sarkar3 4 Riti Chatterjee5 Gunja Kumari1 Deb Prasad Ray6 and Tarun Paul7

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