Claim · model-written summary
Balanced nutrition increased maize yield by 27–56% in Jharkhand.
- Treatment
- balanced nutrition (NPK+ S+B Zn)e0
- Outcome
- yieldse0
- Direction
- increasede0
- Value
- 27 to 56%e0
- Setting
- Jharkhandt0
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Verbatim
e0“balanced nutrition (NPK+ S+B Zn) increased yields by 27 to 56% for paddy (Oryza sativa), maize (Zea mays), and groundnut (Arachis hypogaea)”
t0“Balanced plant nutrition enhances rainfed crop yields and water productivity in Jharkhand and Madhya Pradesh states of India”
Title
Girish Chander; S P Wani; K. L. Sahrawat; et al. Open Access Repository of ICRISAT (International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics) 2012
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- Observation Sulphur was deficient in 43–100% of sampled soils.
- Observation Boron was deficient in 69–98% of sampled soils.
- Observation Zinc was deficient in 5–73% of sampled soils.
- Observation Most fields outside Saraikela had normal soil carbon, phosphorus and potassium.
- Observation Jharkhand soils were relatively poor in fertility.
- Intervention effect Balanced nutrition increased paddy yield by 27–56% in Jharkhand.
- Intervention effect Balanced nutrition increased groundnut yield by 27–56% in Jharkhand.
- Intervention effect Balanced nutrition improved soybean productivity by 14–57% in Madhya Pradesh.
- Intervention effect Balanced nutrition improved paddy productivity by 14–57% in Madhya Pradesh.
- Intervention effect Balanced nutrition improved groundnut productivity by 14–57% in Madhya Pradesh.
- Intervention effect Balanced nutrition improved blackgram productivity by 14–57% in Madhya Pradesh.
- Intervention effect Balanced nutrition improved greengram productivity by 14–57% in Madhya Pradesh.
- Intervention effect Balanced nutrition raised rainwater use efficiency to 1.02–13.3 kg mm–1 ha–1 versus 0.92–9.67 under farmer practice.
- Observation Balanced nutrition produced net returns of Rs. 7155–12375 ha–1 in Jharkhand.
- Observation Balanced nutrition produced net returns of Rs. 1475–12735 ha–1 in Madhya Pradesh.
- Observation The benefit to cost ratio was 7.36–12.0 in Jharkhand.
- Observation The benefit to cost ratio was 1.97–9.35 in Madhya Pradesh.