Alfalfa – The Agronomic Essentials
Technical guide for sucessful growing alfalfa. Alfalfa comes from Asia minor where it was identified almost 10,000 years ago. At the time, it was considered as a forage crop that was easy to grow and store, which explains its rapid spread, firstly in Mediterranean Europe, East Africa, followed by North Africa.
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