Claim · model-written summary
Zero tillage produced a higher benefit-cost ratio of 2.50 versus 2.11.
- Treatment
- zero-tillage maizee1
- Outcome
- benefit-cost ratioe0
- Direction
- highere0
- Value
- 2.50e0
- Qualifier
- 2.11e0
- Comparator
- farmers' practicese0
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Verbatim
e0“recorded higher benefit-cost ratio (2.50) with additional income Rs. 16,460.37/- than farmers' practices (2.11)”
t0“Maize”
e1“The innovative idea of zero-tillage maize arose in 2012–13”
Title
Kiran Pilli; Y. Venkanna; B. Bhaskar Rao; et al. Journal of Scientific Research and Reports 2025. doi:10.9734/jsrr/2025/v31i42946
Other claims from this paper (10)
- Intervention effect Zero tillage maize yield was 73.30 q ha-1, 10.83 percent higher than farmer practice.
- Observation The zero tillage technology index was 13.76%.
- Observation The extension gap was 7.04 q ha-1.
- Observation The technology gap was 11.70 q t ha-1.
- Intervention effect Zero tillage provided Rs. 16,460.37/- in additional income.
- Intervention effect Zero tillage lowered cultivation costs.
- Intervention effect Zero tillage reduced the number of irrigations.
- Mechanism Zero tillage prevented terminal moisture stress using residual moisture.
- Observation Zero tillage adoption rose from negligible to 283.33%, with overall adoption at 144.58%.
- Observation Horizontal spread grew from 0 ha to 892 ha by 2018-19.