Claim · model-written summary
Sole cropping on contour ridges gave the best cassava fresh root yields.
- Taxon
- cassava
Manihot esculentae0 - Treatment
- sole cropping on contour ridgese0
- Outcome
- cassava fresh root yieldse0
- Direction
- beste0
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Verbatim
e0“The best erosion control and cassava fresh root yields were achieved by sole cropping on contour ridges.”
Title
D. E. Leihner; M. Ruppenthal; T. H. Hilger; et al. Experimental Agriculture 1996. doi:10.1017/s0014479700026260
Other claims from this paper (7)
- Intervention effect Sole cropping on contour ridges gave the best erosion control.
- Intervention effect Forage legume intercropping caused greater erosion than sole cassava in the first cropping period.
- Intervention effect Established, uniformly distributed undersown legumes controlled erosion effectively.
- Intervention effect Undersown legumes depressed cassava yield by at least 40%.
- Intervention effect Dense grass contour barriers decreased erosion to tolerable levels.
- Mechanism Grass competition and reduced cropping area lowered cassava yields.
- Recommendation The authors suggest forage production and increased cassava density can compensate for lower yields.