Claim · model-written summary
Zero-tillage reduces the cost of maize cultivation by 11.1% through savings on tillage and irrigation.
- Treatment
- Zero-tillagee1
- Outcome
- cost of cultivatione2
- Direction
- reducinge2
- Value
- 11.1%e2
- Qualifier
- due to savings on tillage and irrigatione2
- Comparator
- conventional tillagee1
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Verbatim
e1“Zero-tillage maize recorded a significant yield advantage, with an average increase of 9.4% (6701 kg/ha vs. 6125 kg/ha in conventional tillage)”
e2“reducing the cost of cultivation by approximately 11.1% (Rs. 3,500/ha) due to savings on tillage and irrigation”
Title
P.B. Pradeep Kumar; B. Bhavani; Tejaewara Rao Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) 2024. doi:10.5281/zenodo.17913181
Other claims from this paper (6)
- Intervention effect Zero-tillage maize gives a significant 9.4% average yield increase over conventional tillage (6701 vs 6125 kg/ha).
- Intervention effect Zero-tillage gives a 40.0% higher net income than conventional tillage.
- Intervention effect Zero-tillage gives a superior cost-benefit ratio of 3.30 compared with 1.33 under conventional tillage.
- Observation Zero-tillage maize is harvested 7-10 days earlier.
- Observation Zero-tillage maize fetches a premium market price of Rs. 14/kg against Rs. 12/kg.
- Recommendation Zero-tillage maize is a feasible, profitable and moisture-conserving technology for rice fallows.