Claim · model-written summary
Rainy-season maize had little effect on subsequent sorghum yield relative to fallow.
- Treatment
- rainy season maize crope0
- Outcome
- yields of post-rainy season crops of sorghume0
- Direction
- little effecte0
- Comparator
- traditional fallowinge0
SorghumNot reportedMaterialGeneCompoundOrgan / stageInteractorInteractor roleSecond interactorSecond interactor roleSettingValueQualifier
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Verbatim
e0“The introduction of a rainy season maize crop, compared with traditional fallowing, had little effect on the yields of post-rainy season crops of sorghum, chickpea and pigeonpea”
Title
Improved Cropping Systems for the Deep Vertisols of the Indian Semi-arid Tropics
M. S. Reddy; R. W. Willey Experimental Agriculture 1982. doi:10.1017/s0014479700013831
Other claims from this paper (8)
- Intervention effect Rainy-season maize had little effect on subsequent chickpea yield relative to fallow.
- Intervention effect Rainy-season maize had little effect on subsequent pigeonpea yield relative to fallow.
- Intervention effect Rainy-season sorghum severely reduced subsequent yields in one year and slightly reduced them in two later years.
- Observation Maize/pigeonpea intercrops appeared promising.
- Observation Sorghum/pigeonpea intercrops appeared promising.
- Observation The maize/pigeonpea/chickpea system appeared promising.
- Intervention effect Improved dual-season systems usually had much higher gross returns.
- Observation Net return differences were smaller because additional crops cost more.