Claim · model-written summary
Zero tillage improved gross returns by 11.4 percent.
- Treatment
- zero tillagee0
- Outcome
- gross returnse0
- Direction
- improvede0
- Value
- 11.4 and 24.8 per cente0
- Comparator
- farmers practicee0
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Verbatim
e0“In zero tillage maize cost of cultivation was reduced by 27.3 per cent whereas, gross returns and net returns were improved by 11.4 and 24.8 per cent, respectively over farmers practice”
Title
C. RADHA KUMARI; M. JOHN SUDHEER INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES 2016. doi:10.15740/has/ijas/12.1/134-138
Other claims from this paper (11)
- Intervention effect Zero tillage increased cob length to 17.4 cm versus 15.5 cm.
- Intervention effect Zero tillage increased grain weight per plant to 129 g versus 115 g.
- Intervention effect Zero tillage increased grains per cob to 421 versus 385.
- Intervention effect Zero tillage increased 100 grain weight to 26.2 g versus 23.6 g.
- Intervention effect Zero tillage increased grain yield to 6250 kg ha -1, 11.4 percent over farmers practice.
- Intervention effect Zero tillage increased stover yield to 7750 kg ha -1, 6.9 percent over farmers practice.
- Intervention effect Zero tillage increased gross returns to Rs. 93,750/- per hectare.
- Intervention effect Zero tillage increased net returns to Rs. 78,000/- per hectare.
- Intervention effect Zero tillage increased the cost benefit ratio to 1:5.9 versus 1:3.9.
- Intervention effect Zero tillage reduced cost of cultivation by 27.3 percent.
- Intervention effect Zero tillage improved net returns by 24.8 percent.