Claim · model-written summary
Full CA was among the most water-use-efficient methods, especially in 2015/16.
- Taxon
- finger millet
Eleusine coracanae0 - Treatment
- Full CAe6
- Outcome
- water utilization (WUE)e6
- Direction
- most efficiente6
- Qualifier
- especially during the 2015/16 seasone6
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Verbatim
e0“the effects of CA on finger millet’s (Eleusine coracana (L.) Gaertn) growth, yield and water use efficiency”
e6“Full CA was also among the most efficient methods in terms of water utilization (WUE), especially during the 2015/16 season”
Title
Vengai Mbanyele; Florence Mtambanengwe; Hatirarami Nezomba; et al. Agriculture 2022. doi:10.3390/agriculture12050622
Other claims from this paper (11)
- Intervention effect All mulched treatments had 15–32% more soil water content than the control over two seasons.
- Association Higher soil water under mulch was associated with 3 days fewer days to emergence of finger millet.
- Association Higher soil water under mulch was associated with greater finger millet shoot biomass.
- Association Higher soil water under mulch was associated with more productive tillers of finger millet.
- Association Higher soil water under mulch was associated with more fingers produced per finger millet plant.
- Intervention effect Full CA gave the best finger millet grain yield, 1.07 and 1.29 t ha−1 in the two seasons.
- Intervention effect Full CA increased finger millet grain yield by 70% over the control in 2015/16.
- Intervention effect Partial CA3 increased finger millet grain yield by 14% over the control in 2015/16.
- Intervention effect Partial CA1 increased finger millet grain yield by 17% over the control in 2015/16.
- Observation Finger millet grain yield in 2016/17 followed a similar trend to 2015/16.
- Intervention effect Conservation agriculture, particularly when practised in full, significantly improved finger millet productivity by offsetting intra-seasonal dry spells.