Claim · model-written summary
Increasing maize density significantly reduced cassava tuber weight.
- Taxon
- CASSAVA
Manihot esculentat0 - Treatment
- maize planting densitye0
- Outcome
- cassava tuber weighte0
- Direction
- decreasee0
- Qualifier
- 9.71 t ha-1e0
- Comparator
- sole cropped cassava (control)e0
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Verbatim
e0“increase in maize planting density resulted in a significantdecrease in cassava tuber weight from 9.71 t ha-1 for sole cropped cassava (control) to 9.24,8.78, 8.27 and 7.80 t ha-1”
t0“CASSAVA (Manihot esculenta Crantz)”
Title
B. Osundare Journal of Agricultural Science and Environment 2010
Other claims from this paper (6)
- Intervention effect Higher maize density significantly decreased cassava leaf area.
- Observation At 20,000 maize plants per hectare cassava leaf area was 2.43 m2/plant.
- Intervention effect Weeding significantly increased cassava leaf area.
- Intervention effect Weeding significantly increased cassava tuber yield.
- Association Maize density and weeding interactions significantly affected cassava growth and yield.
- Observation Sole cassava with W2 gave highest growth and yield indices in both years.