Claim · model-written summary
Sowing across the slope increased wheat grain yield by 41.2%.
- Taxon
- wheat
Triticum aestivume5 - Treatment
- Sowing across the slopee5
- Outcome
- grain yielde5
- Direction
- increasede5
- Value
- 41.2%e5
- Comparator
- along the slope (round about) sowinge5
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Verbatim
e5“Sowing across the slope of the land tested as soil and moisture conservation measure increased the grain yield of maize and wheat by 22.0 and 41.2%. respectively over along the slope (round about) sowing”
Title
Impact of Dryland Technology on Crop Yield in Nara-Dada Watershed of Submontanous Tracts of Punjab
Sukhvinder Singh; Parvender Sheoran; B. S. Sidhu; et al. Indian Journal of Dryland Agricultural Research and Development 2006
Other claims from this paper (8)
- Intervention effect Improved seed raised crop production over local seed across crops.
- Intervention effect Seed treatment increased wheat yield compared with untreated seed.
- Intervention effect Wider row spacing increased yield of wheat and lentil compared with closer spacing.
- Association Fertilizer and weed management were associated with increasing overall crop productivity.
- Intervention effect Intercropping of raya with rainfed rabi crops increased crop yield by 10–25%.
- Intervention effect Sowing across the slope increased maize grain yield, with a value of 22.0 relative to along-slope sowing.
- Intervention effect Improved crop production technologies increased overall crop productivity by 35–72% over traditional practices.
- Observation Net return was highest from groundnut in kharif and from chickpea in rabi crops.