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No-till with earthworms had positive effects on soil and crop.
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Title
Abbas Safeer; Irfan Aziz; Tariq Mahmood; et al. Soil in the Environment 2013
Other claims from this paper (14)
- Intervention effect No-till with earthworms had the highest bulk density, 1.42 g cm-3, among the tillage treatments.
- Intervention effect No-till with earthworms had the maximum soil organic carbon, 11.61 Mg C ha-1, among the tillage treatments.
- Intervention effect Conventional tillage had 32% less nitrate nitrogen than no-till at 0-15 cm soil depth.
- Intervention effect No-till with earthworms had more available phosphorus than conventional and reduced tillage at 0-15 cm depth.
- Intervention effect Conventional tillage had the highest number of grains per cob, 336.
- Intervention effect Conventional tillage had the highest grain yield, 3.6 t ha-1.
- Intervention effect No-till had the lowest number of grains per cob, 259.
- Intervention effect No-till had the lowest grain yield, 2.57 t ha-1.
- Intervention effect Conventional tillage had 33% more 1000-grain weight than no-till.
- Intervention effect Conventional tillage had 28% more biological yield than no-till.
- Intervention effect Conventional tillage had 23% more economical yield than no-till.
- Intervention effect Reduced tillage gave a higher grain yield, 3.35 t ha-1, than no-till with earthworms.
- Intervention effect No-till with earthworms gave a grain yield of 2.92 t ha-1, lower than conventional and reduced tillage.
- Intervention effect The cost benefit ratio was higher in conventional tillage (3.57) than in no-till (2.85).