Claim · model-written summary
Irrigation was cost-effective in only one of six trials.
- Taxon
- faba bean
Vicia fabat0 - Treatment
- irrigatione0
- Outcome
- cost-effectivee0
- Value
- one of six trialse0
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Verbatim
e0“irrigation proved cost-effective in only one of six trials”
t0“Irrigation but not fertilization increases yields and N2 fixation in organic faba bean in temperate climates”
Title
Lars Dietrich; Chantal Syrovy; Thomas F. Döring; et al. Agricultural Water Management 2025. doi:10.1016/j.agwat.2025.109498
Other claims from this paper (9)
- Intervention effect Irrigation increased faba bean yield by 54%.
- Intervention effect Irrigation increased nitrogen fixation by up to 105%.
- Intervention effect Rock phosphate and potassium sulfate fertilization, with or without micronutrients, had no significant yield effect.
- Intervention effect Mineral fertilization had no effect on faba bean nitrogen fixation.
- Intervention effect Irrigation significantly increased pod number and grain count.
- Intervention effect Irrigation significantly increased leaf chlorophyll content.
- Mechanism Yield increases were mainly attributed to more pods and grains rather than reduced pod shedding.
- Mechanism Irrigation improved farmgate nitrogen balance by increasing nitrogen fixation without depleting soil nitrogen reserves.
- Recommendation Irrigation rates need optimization.