Claim · model-written summary
Conventional tillage raised total variable cost by 4% in LR2015 versus minimum tillage.
- Treatment
- conventional tillagee0
- Outcome
- Total variable coste0
- Direction
- highere0
- Value
- 4 and 2%e0
- Qualifier
- LR2015e0
- Comparator
- minimum tillagee0
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Verbatim
e0“Total variable cost was 4 and 2% higher under conventional tillage compared to minimum tillage during the LR2015 and SR2015 seasons, respectively.”
e1“soil fertility, maize crop yield and on farm profit margins”
Title
Murimi David Njue; Mucheru-Muna Monicah Wanjiku; Mugi-Ngenga Esther; et al. AIMS Agriculture and Food 2020. doi:10.3934/agrfood.2020.4.666
Other claims from this paper (14)
- Intervention effect NPK gave the highest significant maize yields compared with treatments omitting a nutrient.
- Intervention effect NPK increased maize grain yield by over 150% versus control across three seasons.
- Intervention effect NP increased maize grain yield by over 150% versus control across three seasons.
- Intervention effect NK increased maize grain yield by over 150% versus control across three seasons.
- Intervention effect Omitting N caused the largest grain losses, 2.06, 2.40 and 2.42 t ha-1 across the three seasons.
- Intervention effect Omitting P caused grain losses of 0.8, 0.59 and 0.43 t ha-1 across the three seasons.
- Intervention effect Conservation agriculture significantly increased soil P over three seasons.
- Intervention effect Soil K was significantly higher in NP and PK treatments.
- Intervention effect Soil K was significantly higher under conservation agriculture than conventional agriculture.
- Intervention effect Minimum tillage raised benefit to cost ratio by 3% in LR2015 versus conventional tillage.
- Intervention effect Minimum tillage raised benefit to cost ratio by 5% in SR2015 versus conventional tillage.
- Intervention effect Conventional tillage raised total variable cost by 2% in SR2015 versus minimum tillage.
- Observation Treatments with N and conservation agriculture were most profitable.
- Recommendation The authors recommend conservation agriculture with NPK to increase maize yield and investment returns.