Claim · model-written summary
Intercropped cassava yield declined as planting density exceeded 10,000 plants per hectare.
- Taxon
- cassava
Manihot esculentae0 - Treatment
- planting density beyond 10,000 plants ha −1e0
- Outcome
- cassava yieldse0
- Direction
- reducede0
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Verbatim
e0“When intercropped, increases in cassava planting density beyond 10,000 plants ha −1 gradually reduced cassava yields ( p < 0.001)”
Title
Dorcas I. Aisien; Guillermo Hernandez‐Ramirez; Akim Omokanye Journal of Sustainable Agriculture and Environment 2026. doi:10.1002/sae2.70169
Other claims from this paper (5)
- Intervention effect Simultaneous cassava and legume planting reduced cassava yield by 18%.
- Intervention effect Delaying legume sowing 2–4 weeks increased cassava yield by 16%.
- Intervention effect Legume intercropping benefited cassava yield particularly on coarse-textured soils.
- Intervention effect Across comparisons, intercropped cassava yielded 16% less than monocropped cassava.
- Observation Cassava-legume mixtures attained a land equivalent ratio of 1.84.