Claim · model-written summary
Farmer irrigation did not improve soil salinity compared with FI.
- Taxon
- faba bean
Vicia fabat0 - Treatment
- FMe0
- Outcome
- soil salinitye0
- Direction
- did not improvee0
- Comparator
- FIe0
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.

Verbatim
e0“the FM did not improve soil salinity but resulted in a significant yield reduction compared to FI”
t0“faba bean”
Title
Fathia El Mokh; Kamel Nagaz; Ashok Kumar Alva; et al. Irrigation and Drainage 2021. doi:10.1002/ird.2635
Other claims from this paper (15)
- Intervention effect Full irrigation had the lowest soil salinity at harvest.
- Intervention effect DI40 and farmer irrigation had the highest soil salinity at harvest.
- Intervention effect Full irrigation gave maximum faba bean yield.
- Intervention effect Farmer irrigation gave the lowest faba bean yield.
- Intervention effect DI70 did not significantly reduce yield relative to FI.
- Intervention effect DI40 significantly decreased fresh pod yield.
- Intervention effect Farmer irrigation significantly decreased fresh pod yield.
- Intervention effect Farmer irrigation used 12%–20% more water than FI.
- Intervention effect Farmer irrigation significantly reduced yield compared with FI.
- Observation Water productivity was 4.9 kg m−3 with farmer irrigation.
- Observation Water productivity was 14 kg m−3 with DI40.
- Intervention effect FI gave higher yield than farmer irrigation.
- Intervention effect FI gave higher net income than farmer irrigation.
- Intervention effect DI70 saved 30% of irrigation water.
- Recommendation The authors recommended DI70 where irrigation water is limited.