Claim · model-written summary
Drip irrigation increased sweet corn green cob yield to 1.67 t/ha, 10.78% above check basin irrigation.
- Taxon
- Sweet corne0
- Treatment
- drip irrigatione0
- Outcome
- green cobe0
- Direction
- highere0
- Value
- 1.67e0
- Qualifier
- 10.78e0
- Comparator
- check basin method of irrigatione0
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Verbatim
e0“Sweet corn grown under drip irrigation noticed significantly higher green cob, fodder and total biomass (1.67, 1.73 and 3.40 t/ha, respectively) with increment of 10.78, 4.05 and 7.35 %, respectively over check basin method of irrigation.”
Title
Ashitosh S. Latkar; U.V. Mahadkar; J.S. Dhekale International Journal of Current Microbiology and Applied Sciences 2017. doi:10.20546/ijcmas.2017.607.089
Other claims from this paper (11)
- Intervention effect Drip irrigation increased fodder yield to 1.73 t/ha, 4.05% above check basin irrigation.
- Intervention effect Drip irrigation increased total biomass to 3.40 t/ha, 7.35% above check basin irrigation.
- Intervention effect Soil-test-based NPK and micronutrient fertilization produced the highest green cob yield of 2.05 t/ha.
- Intervention effect Applying 50% of lime requirement gave the highest green cob yield of 1.67 t/ha.
- Intervention effect Applying 50% of lime requirement gave the highest fodder yield of 1.74 t/ha.
- Observation Drip-irrigated sweet corn yielded net returns of 151.17×10³/ha.
- Observation Drip-irrigated sweet corn had a benefit-cost ratio of 2.16:1.
- Observation Soil-test-based NPK and micronutrients gave net returns of 257.14×10³/ha.
- Observation Soil-test-based NPK and micronutrients gave a benefit-cost ratio of 2.31:1.
- Observation Applying 50% of lime requirement produced the highest net returns of 210.84×10³/ha.
- Observation Applying 25% of lime requirement gave the highest profitability with a benefit-cost ratio of 2.20:1.