Claim · model-written summary
Sage strips reduced soil loss by 69% versus conventional tillage.
- Treatment
- non-tillage with sage stripse0
- Outcome
- soil losse0
- Direction
- decreaseinferrede0
- Value
- 69%e0
- Comparator
- conventional tillagee0
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Verbatim
e0“Non-tillage with rosemary strips reduced soil loss by 91% and runoff by 82%, with respect to conventional tillage, while these percentages were 69% and 51%, respectively, for non-tillage with sage strips.”
Title
Benefits of plant strips for sustainable mountain agriculture
Victor Hugo Durán Zuazo; Carmen Rocío Rodríguez Pleguezuelo; José Ramón Francia Martínez; et al. Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology) . doi:10.1051/agro:2008020/pdf
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- Intervention effect Thyme strips reduced soil loss by 93% versus conventional tillage.
- Intervention effect Thyme strips reduced runoff by 80% versus conventional tillage.
- Intervention effect Rosemary strips reduced soil loss by 91% versus conventional tillage.
- Intervention effect Rosemary strips reduced runoff by 82% versus conventional tillage.
- Intervention effect Sage strips reduced runoff by 51% versus conventional tillage.
- Intervention effect Plant strips reduced NPK losses in surface runoff compared with tillage.
- Observation Almond nut yield averaged 2.4 kg per tree with sage strips.
- Observation Almond nut yield averaged 3.2 kg per tree with rosemary strips.
- Observation Almond nut yield averaged 3.8 kg per tree with thyme strips.
- Observation Almond nut yield averaged 4.5 kg per tree under conventional tillage.
- Observation Sage strips yielded 5.0 L per hectare of essential oil.
- Observation Rosemary strips yielded 8.7 L per hectare of essential oil.
- Observation Thyme strips yielded 10.8 L per hectare of essential oil.
- Recommendation The authors regarded orchard trees combined with shrubs as a viable conservation and production option.