Claim · model-written summary
Conventional tillage increased maize grain yield over zero tillage by 66.3% at Chadiza in 2000/2001.
- Treatment
- conventional tillagee3
- Outcome
- grain yielde3
- Direction
- increasese3
- Value
- 66.3%e3
- Qualifier
- 2000/2001e3
- Comparator
- zero tillagee3
- Setting
- Chadizae3
Zea maysNot reportedMaterialGeneCompoundOrgan / stageInteractorInteractor roleSecond interactorSecond interactor role
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Verbatim
t0“Maize (Zea mays)”
e1“done at sites in eastern Zambia”
e3“At Chadiza, the increases in grain yield under conventional tillage over zero tillage were 66.3% and 327.4% during 2000/2001 and 2001/2002 seasons, respectively”
Title
Paramu Mafongoya; Obert Jiri; Mutondwa Phophi Sustainable Agriculture Research 2015. doi:10.5539/sar.v5n1p10
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