Claim · model-written summary
Adding rock phosphate to compost gave an additional 10% increase in millet yield over compost alone.
- Taxon
- Pearl Millet
Cenchrus americanuse0 - Treatment
- rock phosphatee5
- Outcome
- yielde5
- Direction
- increasee5
- Value
- 10%e5
- Comparator
- composte5
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Verbatim
e0“Pearl Millet (Pennisetum glaucum (L.) R. Br.) is one of the principal cereal crops grown in the semiarid agroecosystem of Senegal”
e5“There was an additional 10% increase in yield when compost was supplemented with rock phosphate”
Title
Pearl millet-based intercropping systems in the semiarid areas of Senegal
S Diangar; A Fofana; M Diagne; et al. African Crop Science Journal 2004. doi:10.4314/acsj.v12i2.27671
Other claims from this paper (5)
- Intervention effect Sole-crop yields of pearl millet and cowpea were higher than intercrop yields.
- Intervention effect The millet-grain cowpea intercrop was more productive than sole crops, with a Land Equivalent Ratio of more than one.
- Association Millet variety IBV 8004 was more stable than Souna 3 in both sole crop and intercrop.
- Observation High-yielding millet varieties selected for the CNR and CSR were IBV 8004 and Souna3.
- Intervention effect Compost application increased the yield of selected millet varieties by more than 40% compared with the control with no nutrients applied.