Claim · model-written summary
Conservation agriculture in rice–maize gave higher crop productivity (13.1 t/ha versus 11.75 t/ha in conventional rice–maize).
- Taxon
- rice–maize
Oryza sativa
Zea mayse5 - Treatment
- adoption of CA practicese2
- Outcome
- crop productivitye5
- Direction
- highere5
- Value
- 13.1 t ha−1e5
- Qualifier
- as compared to 11.75 t ha−1e5
- Comparator
- conventionale5
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Verbatim
t0“Is conservation agriculture a potential option for cereal-based sustainable farming system in the Eastern Indo-Gangetic Plains of Nepal?”
e2“through the adoption of CA practices”
e5“higher crop productivity (8.11 t ha−1 as compared to 8.08 t ha−1 in rice–wheat and 13.1 t ha−1 as compared to 11.75 t ha−1 in conventional rice–maize”
Title
Dipendra Pokharel; Raj Kant Jha; Thakur Prasad Tiwari; et al. Cogent Food & Agriculture 2018. doi:10.1080/23311932.2018.1557582
Other claims from this paper (4)
- Intervention effect Conservation agriculture reduced labour use per area in the cereal-based system compared with conventional practice.
- Intervention effect Conservation agriculture reduced input cost compared with conventional practice.
- Intervention effect Conservation agriculture reduced irrigation with regard to ponding time by 50% compared with conventional practice.
- Intervention effect Conservation agriculture in rice–wheat gave higher crop productivity (8.11 t/ha versus 8.08 t/ha).