Claim · model-written summary
Mixing compost with NPK increased sorghum leaf area index over NPK alone by 28%.
- Treatment
- Mixing compost with NPKe5
- Outcome
- leaf area indexe5
- Direction
- increasede5
- Value
- 28%e5
- Comparator
- NPK alonee5
SorghumNot reportedMaterialGeneCompoundOrgan / stageInteractorInteractor roleSecond interactorSecond interactor roleSettingQualifier
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Verbatim
e5“Mixing compost with NPK increased leaf area index over NPK alone by 28%”
t0“Yield of Sorghum”
Title
Abdelraheim Mohamed Said Ahmed; Majed Abu-Zreig; Mubarak Abdelrahman Abdalla; et al. International Journal of Agriculture and Biology 2019. doi:10.17957/ijab/15.1297
Other claims from this paper (9)
- Intervention effect Application of composts increased soil organic carbon by 50%.
- Intervention effect Application of composts increased available phosphorus by 43 to 105%.
- Observation Compost application decreased soil pH by 2.
- Observation Compost application decreased bulk density by 6%.
- Intervention effect Soil moisture in compost-treated plots was 56-98% higher than in control plots.
- Intervention effect Leaf area index of sorghum was highest in plots with chicken compost or compost integrated with NPK compared with NPK alone.
- Intervention effect Compost incorporation increased sorghum dry matter yield over control by 17-53%.
- Intervention effect Compost incorporation increased sorghum grain yield 1.8 to 3.1 fold over control in both varieties.
- Intervention effect Grain yield from NPK, sole chicken compost or chicken compost with NPK was similar for both varieties in both seasons.