Claim · model-written summary
Conservation agriculture raised maize yield 51% relative to conventional practice.
- Treatment
- CAe0
- Outcome
- maize yieldse0
- Direction
- improvede0
- Value
- 51e0
- Comparator
- conventional farmer practicese0
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Verbatim
e0“CA and Mbeya‐fert improved maize yields by 51 and 19%, respectively, compared to conventional farmer practices.”
Title
Evaluating the merits of climate smart technologies under smallholder agriculture in Malawi
Isaiah Nyagumbo; Munyaradzi Mutenje; Peter Setimela; et al. Soil Use and Management 2021. doi:10.1111/sum.12715
Other claims from this paper (9)
- Intervention effect The three systems improved soil particulate organic matter, carbon and mineral nutrients.
- Intervention effect The three systems lowered soil bulk density.
- Intervention effect Maize–pigeonpea intercropping increased annual biomass input and water infiltration.
- Intervention effect Mbeya fertilization raised maize yield 19% relative to conventional practice.
- Intervention effect Conservation agriculture raised topsoil carbon by 6.5 t C ha−1.
- Intervention effect Mbeya fertilization raised topsoil carbon by 12 t C ha−1.
- Intervention effect Maize–pigeonpea intercropping raised topsoil carbon by 10.5 t C ha−1.
- Intervention effect Drought tolerant varieties, timely weeding and optimal populations increased productivity.
- Intervention effect Climate smart practices improved gross margins.