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
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Riti Chatterjee5
Gunja Kumari1
Deb Prasad Ray6 and Tarun Paul7
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