Claim · model-written summary
Zero tillage (ZT) incurred the highest cost of production
- Taxon
- maize/cowpea
Vigna unguiculata
Zea mayst0 - Treatment
- ZTe5
- Outcome
- coste5
- Direction
- higheste5
- Setting
- northern Ghanat0
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
t0“maize/cowpea intercrop under different tillage systems in northern Ghana”
e5“The highest cost was incurred under ZT due to high cost of herbicides and labour for spraying”
Title
JM Kombiok; EY Safo; C Quansah; et al. Ghana Journal of Agricultural Science 2005. doi:10.4314/gjas.v36i1.2070
Other claims from this paper (11)
- Intervention effect Conventional tillage (Con) increased grain yields of maize and cowpea compared with hand hoe and zero tillage
- Intervention effect Bullock plough (BP) with tillage depths over 12 cm increased grain yields of both crops compared with hand hoe and zero tillage
- Intervention effect Conventional tillage (Con) reduced weed score, weed count and weed dry matter compared with hand hoe and zero tillage
- Intervention effect Bullock plough (BP) reduced weed score, weed count and weed dry matter compared with hand hoe and zero tillage
- Intervention effect Tillage systems did not influence the weed flora
- Intervention effect Cropping systems increased grass composition in maize to about 70 per cent
- Intervention effect Cropping systems significantly decreased broad leaf weeds
- Intervention effect Bullock plough (BP) gave the highest net benefits and benefit-cost ratio
- Intervention effect The maize component had higher BCRs in intercrops than in sole cropping
- Association Poor rainfall distribution had a negative impact on the yield of both crops
- Association Inter-row cropping systems gave negative BCRs in both years