Claim · model-written summary
Hairy vetch did not increase rice nitrogen use efficiency compared with bare fallow.
- Taxon
- rice
Oryza sativat0 - Treatment
- Hairy vetche1
- Outcome
- N use efficiencye0
- Direction
- did not translate into highere0
- Comparator
- bare fallowinge0
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Verbatim
e0“did not translate into higher yields or N use efficiency compared to bare fallowing”
t0“rice”
e1“Hairy vetch tended to improve rice development (i.e., NDVI and panicle density)”
Title
Balancing cover crop benefits and economic realities in Mediterranean rice farming
Gonçalo Nascimento; Mar Catala-Forner; Carlos Cantero-Martínez; et al. Agronomy for Sustainable Development 2025. doi:10.1007/s13593-025-01007-4
Other claims from this paper (9)
- Association Ryegrass biomass depended more on precipitation and was negatively affected by prior rice nitrogen fertilizer.
- Association Ryegrass produced no more biomass nitrogen than hairy vetch.
- Intervention effect Rice yield was 13% lower after ryegrass than bare fallow.
- Intervention effect Rice nitrogen use efficiency was 16% lower after ryegrass than bare fallow.
- Intervention effect Hairy vetch tended to improve rice NDVI and panicle density.
- Intervention effect Hairy vetch did not increase rice yields compared with bare fallow.
- Intervention effect Cover crop implementation significantly reduced profitability.
- Intervention effect Hairy vetch cover cropping increased soil total nitrogen by 10%.
- Recommendation Authors concluded economic incentives are needed for cover crop adoption.