Claim · model-written summary
Plastic mulch reduced weed dry matter by 100% at 30 DAT in 2017-18.
- Taxon
- onion
Allium cepat0 - Treatment
- plastic mulche1
- Interactor
- weede1weed
- Outcome
- weed dry mattere1
- Direction
- reductione1
- Value
- 100e0
- Qualifier
- 2017-18e0
Not reportedMaterialGeneCompoundOrgan / stageSecond interactorSecond interactor roleComparatorSetting
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.

Verbatim
e0“100 and 93.64 percent during 2017-18”
e1“Hand weeding reduced weed dry matter to the extent of 75.83 and 84.83 percent during 2016-17, 100 and 89.21 percent during 2017-18, 98.64 and 88.62 percent under pooled data at 30 and 60 DAT respectively and the corresponding reduction in weed dry matter due to application of plastic mulch was 70.73 and 40.32 percent during 2016-17, 100 and 93.64 percent during 2017-18, 98.37 and 86.52 percent under pooled data at 30 and 60 DAT respectively, compared to weedy check.”
t0“onion”
Title
Study on Different Methods of Weed Management in Onion (Allium cepa L.)
Sheela Barla; R. R. Upasani Current Journal of Applied Science and Technology 2019. doi:10.9734/cjast/2019/v33i330079
Other claims from this paper (16)
- Intervention effect Hand weeding was most effective at reducing weed dry matter and was generally similar to plastic mulch.
- Intervention effect Hand weeding reduced weed dry matter by 75.83% at 30 DAT in 2016-17.
- Intervention effect Hand weeding reduced weed dry matter by 84.83% at 60 DAT in 2016-17.
- Intervention effect Hand weeding reduced weed dry matter by 100% at 30 DAT in 2017-18.
- Intervention effect Hand weeding reduced weed dry matter by 89.21% at 60 DAT in 2017-18.
- Intervention effect Pooled hand weeding reduced weed dry matter by 98.64% at 30 DAT.
- Intervention effect Pooled hand weeding reduced weed dry matter by 88.62% at 60 DAT.
- Intervention effect Plastic mulch reduced weed dry matter by 70.73% at 30 DAT in 2016-17.
- Intervention effect Plastic mulch reduced weed dry matter by 40.32% at 60 DAT in 2016-17.
- Intervention effect Plastic mulch reduced weed dry matter by 93.64% at 60 DAT in 2017-18.
- Intervention effect Pooled plastic mulch reduced weed dry matter by 98.37% at 30 DAT.
- Intervention effect Pooled plastic mulch reduced weed dry matter by 86.52% at 60 DAT.
- Intervention effect Plastic mulch increased onion yield relative to weedy check by 300%, 1959%, and 576% in 2016-17, 2017-18, and pooled data.
- Intervention effect Plastic mulch increased onion yield relative to hand weeding by 38%, 117%, and 70% in 2016-17, 2017-18, and pooled data.
- Intervention effect Plastic mulch gave maximum net returns of 364136, 380185 and 372160 /ha across the two years and pooled data.
- Intervention effect Pooled maximum benefit-cost ratio occurred with plastic mulch and was similar to three other treatments.