Claim · model-written summary
Net benefits for 2:1 harvesting were 32% lower.
- Taxon
- rain-fed landt0
- Treatment
- 2:1 treatmente0
- Outcome
- Net benefitse0
- Direction
- lowere0
- Value
- 32%e0
- Comparator
- controle0
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Verbatim
e0“Net benefits for the 1:1 treatment equalled or exceeded those of the control, but were 32% lower for the 2:1 treatment.”
t0“rain-fed land”
Title
D. J. Rees; Z. A. Qureshi; S. Mehmood; et al. The Journal of Agricultural Science 1991. doi:10.1017/s0021859600076188
Other claims from this paper (9)
- Intervention effect Catchment runoff increased water storage by 55% for 1:1 plots.
- Intervention effect Catchment runoff increased water storage by 43% for 2:1 plots.
- Intervention effect Water harvesting increased yield per cropped area.
- Intervention effect Across trials, 1:1 treatment yield was 95% of control yield.
- Intervention effect Waterlogging reduced yields in 2:1 plots.
- Intervention effect Overall costs fell 18% with 1:1 water harvesting.
- Intervention effect Overall costs fell 31% with 2:1 water harvesting.
- Intervention effect Net benefits for 1:1 harvesting equalled or exceeded the control.
- Recommendation The authors conclude that 1:1 harvesting reduces risk while maintaining yields and benefits.