Claim · model-written summary
Under conservation tillage on grazed pasture, soil bulk density fell from 1.42 to 1.31 after two years.
- Treatment
- CSTe0
- Outcome
- bulk density (BD)e0
- Direction
- decreaseinferrede0
- Value
- 1.42 to 1.31e0
- Comparator
- GPe0
Zea maysNot reportedMaterialGeneCompoundOrgan / stageInteractorInteractor roleSecond interactorSecond interactor roleSettingQualifier
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Verbatim
e0“On the GP, for instance, after 2 years under CST, soil compaction indicators like bulk density (BD) and cone index (CI) changed from 1.42 to 1.31 and 4.5 to 3.1 respectively”
t0“The test crop was maize”
Title
Nurudeen Owolabi Oladeji; Ajayi Adebowale Samuel International Journal of Research and Innovation in Applied Science 2025. doi:10.51584/ijrias.2025.10040096
Other claims from this paper (11)
- Intervention effect Under conservation tillage on grazed pasture, cone index fell from 4.5 to 3.1 after two years.
- Intervention effect Under conservation tillage on grazed pasture, soil hydraulic conductivity fell from 61.5 to 50.1.
- Intervention effect Under conservation tillage on grazed pasture, infiltration rate fell from 73.1 to 56.8.
- Intervention effect Under conservation tillage on grazed pasture, gravimetric moisture content fell from 15.9 to 12.4%.
- Intervention effect On grazed pasture, no tillage reduced soil organic carbon from 13.3% to 1.1% after two years.
- Intervention effect On grazed pasture, conventional tillage reduced soil organic carbon from 13.3% to 2.1 after two years.
- Intervention effect On grazed pasture, conservation tillage reduced soil organic carbon from 13.3% to 4.1 after two years.
- Intervention effect Conservation tillage yielded 4.7 tons/ha maize in the first season and 3.6 tons/ha in year two.
- Intervention effect Conventional tillage yielded 4.1 tons/ha maize in the first season and 3.3 tons/ha in year two.
- Intervention effect No tillage yielded 3.8 tons/ha maize in the first season and 2.5 tons/ha in year two.
- Observation On cultivated land, no significant crop or soil changes were recorded.