Claim · model-written summary
Cassava yield was higher on manually cleared no-till and shearblade cleared no-till plots than on other treatments.
- Taxon
- cassava
Manihot esculentae1 - Treatment
- manually cleared with no-till and shearblade cleared with no-tille1
- Outcome
- yieldse1
- Direction
- highere1
- Comparator
- other treatmentse1
- Setting
- Ibadan, Nigeriae0
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.

Verbatim
e0“conducted on Alfisols at Ibadan, Nigeria”
e1“In Phase I, yields of maize (Zea mays), cowpea (Vigna unguiculata) and cassava (Manihoc esculenta) were higher on manually cleared with no-till and shearblade cleared with no-till treatments than on other treatments”
Title
Agronomic Sustainability of Different Farming Systems on Alfisols in Southwestern Nigeria
Rattan Lal Journal of Sustainable Agriculture 1994. doi:10.1300/j064v04n02_05
Other claims from this paper (6)
- Intervention effect Maize yield was higher on manually cleared no-till and shearblade cleared no-till plots than on other treatments.
- Intervention effect Cowpea yield was higher on manually cleared no-till and shearblade cleared no-till plots than on other treatments.
- Intervention effect In Phase II, maize growth was higher with Mucuna fallowing than with alley cropping or ley farming.
- Intervention effect In Phase II, cowpea growth was higher on alley cropped plots.
- Association Maize grain yield declined with cultivation duration, regardless of the farming system.
- Association The relative decline in cowpea grain yield with cultivation duration was less than that of maize.