Claim · model-written summary
Zero tillage reduced soil pH and bulk density after three years.
- Taxon
- chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.)
Cicer arietinume1 - Treatment
- zero tillagee0
- Outcome
- soil pH and bulk densitye0
- Direction
- lowerede0
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“After 3 years zero tillage lowered soil pH and bulk density and improved the soil organic C and available N.”
e1“chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.)”
Title
Shiva Dhar; Sudhir Kumar Das; Sunil Kumar; et al. The Indian Journal of Agricultural Sciences 2008
Other claims from this paper (10)
- Intervention effect Deep summer ploughing and two harrowings improved stand, growth, yield attributes and yields versus zero tillage.
- Intervention effect Foliage mulch at 5 or 7.5 tonnes per hectare improved growth and yield attributes in specified tillage combinations.
- Intervention effect Mulch alone or jalshakti alone did not increase grain yield.
- Intervention effect The 7.5-tonne mulch and 2.5-kg jalshakti combination gave higher grain yields.
- Observation The 5-tonne mulch and 5-kg jalshakti combination yielded comparably under zero tillage.
- Observation The zero-tillage mulch and jalshakti combination gave higher net returns.
- Observation The 5-tonne mulch and 5-kg jalshakti zero-tillage combination had the highest benefit-cost ratio.
- Intervention effect Zero tillage improved soil organic carbon and available nitrogen.
- Observation Deep ploughing and two harrowings gave higher infiltration rate.
- Observation Deep ploughing and two harrowings gave higher available phosphorus.