Claim · model-written summary
Increasing nitrogen from 0 to 120 kg/ha increased onion consumptive use from 560 to 628 mm.
- Taxon
- onion
Allium cepat0 - Treatment
- N level from 0 to 120 kg/hae0
- Outcome
- consumptive usee0
- Direction
- increasede0
- Value
- 560 to 628 mme0
- Comparator
- 0e0
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Verbatim
e0“Increase in N level from 0 to 120 kg/ha increased the consumptive use and water-use efficiency from 560 to 628 mm and 38.1 to 52.1 kg/ha/mm respectively.”
t0“onion (Allium cepa)”
Title
D. S. Rana; Raunak Sharma The Indian Journal of Agricultural Sciences 1994
Other claims from this paper (10)
- Intervention effect At 1.25 IW:CPE, onion bulb yield was 69.6% higher than at 0.75 IW:CPE.
- Intervention effect At 1.75 IW:CPE, onion bulb yield was 72.8% higher than at 0.75 IW:CPE.
- Observation Onion seasonal consumptive use was 500 mm at 0.75 IW:CPE.
- Observation Onion seasonal consumptive use was 636 mm at 1.25 IW:CPE.
- Observation Onion seasonal consumptive use was 784 mm at 1.75 IW:CPE.
- Observation Onion water-use efficiency peaked at 50.3 kg/ha/mm with 1.25 IW:CPE irrigation.
- Intervention effect Nitrogen application up to 120 kg/ha significantly increased onion dry matter per bulb, 100-bulb weight and bulb diameter compared with 60 kg/ha.
- Intervention effect Nitrogen application up to 120 kg/ha significantly increased onion bulb yield compared with 60 kg/ha.
- Observation The net return per rupee invested in nitrogen was Rs 12.4 at 131.4 kg N/ha.
- Intervention effect Increasing nitrogen from 0 to 120 kg/ha increased onion water-use efficiency from 38.1 to 52.1 kg/ha/mm.