Claim · model-written summary
Deep basin tillage increased soil moisture above open tied ridges by 14.6% (62.5 mm).
- Taxon
- Sorghum bicolor L.
Sorghum bicolort0 - Treatment
- Deep basin tillage methode0
- Outcome
- soil moisture contente0
- Direction
- increasede0
- Value
- 14.6% (62.5 mm)e0
- Comparator
- opene0
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Verbatim
e0“Deep basin tillage method significantly increased the soil moisture content by 14.6% (62.5 mm); 6.2 % (26.5 mm) above that on the ridges and in furrows of open and closed end tied ridges, respectively.”
t0“dryland sorghum (Sorghum bicolor L.)”
Title
Johnson Masaka; Collen Chohunoita; Elvis Mupfiga Cogent Food & Agriculture 2021. doi:10.1080/23311932.2021.1925004
Other claims from this paper (7)
- Intervention effect Deep basin tillage increased soil moisture above closed tied ridges by 6.2 % (26.5 mm).
- Intervention effect Deep basins stored 98.0 mm (29.8%) more soil moisture than conventional tillage.
- Intervention effect Open tied ridges stored 35.5 mm (10.8%) more soil moisture than conventional tillage.
- Intervention effect Closed tied ridges stored 69.5 mm (21.1%) more soil moisture than conventional tillage.
- Intervention effect Sorghum growth parameters were significantly higher under deep basin tillage than the other tillage treatments.
- Intervention effect Opening tied ridge ends produced similar soil water build-ups in furrows and ridges.
- Intervention effect Replacing closed with open tied ridges did not alter sorghum biometric growth parameters.