Claim · model-written summary
Mean fruit yield was higher under variable rate fertilization, though the yield difference was not significant.
- Taxon
- wild blueberryt0
- Treatment
- VR treatmente0
- Outcome
- fruit yielde0
- Direction
- highere0
- Comparator
- uniform treatmente0
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Verbatim
e0“The fruit yields in VR treatment sections were non-significantly different than uniform treatment section, although mean fruit yield was higher in VR section”
t0“Wild Blueberry”
Title
Impact of Variable Rate Fertilization on Wild Blueberry Plant Growth and Fruit Yield
Shoaib Rashid Saleem; Qamar Uz Zaman; Arnold Walter Schumann; et al. Applied Engineering in Agriculture 2013. doi:10.13031/aea.29.10112
Other claims from this paper (6)
- Intervention effect Uniform fertilization produced taller plants than variable rate fertilization in low lying areas.
- Intervention effect Fertilizer treatments had no significant effect on density, branch number or bud number.
- Association Plant growth parameters correlated significantly with soil properties and nutrients under both fertilizer treatments.
- Intervention effect Variable rate fertilization saved 39% fertilizer in Field 1.
- Intervention effect Variable rate fertilization saved 41% fertilizer in Field 2.
- Recommendation The authors suggested variable rate fertilization could increase fruit yield and reduce fertilizer use.