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About 98% of farmers practiced planting basins.
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Léonard Rusinamhodzi; Marc Corbeels; J. Nyamangara; et al. Agritrop (Cirad) 2012
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- Association Previous field management, nutrient management and season significantly affected crop yield.
- Intervention effect Tillage had no significant effect on crop yield.
- Observation Under conventional tillage with manure and nitrogen, maize grain yield reached 5.6 t ha-1 in 2009-2010.
- Intervention effect The equivalent planting basin treatment yielded 4.6 t ha-1 in 2009-2010.
- Observation Conventional tillage produced 1.6 t ha-1, the largest yield in the poorly distributed rainfall season.
- Intervention effect Planting basins produced 1.2 t ha-1 in the poorly distributed rainfall season.
- Observation Conventional land preparation required 6 man days ha-1.
- Intervention effect Making planting basins required 27 man days per hectare in clay soil.
- Intervention effect Making planting basins required 15 man days per hectare in sandy soil.
- Intervention effect Weeding planting basins required 40% more labour than conventional tillage.
- Intervention effect Planting basins did not improve moisture conservation during poorly distributed rainfall.
- Observation Planting basins were easier to make and required less labour in sandy than clay soils.
- Observation Planting basins were easier to maintain in clay than sandy soils.
- Observation The maximum area under planting basins was 0.2 ha per farm, at most 10% of landholding.
- Recommendation The authors consider widespread adoption of planting basins unlikely because of labour burden without yield gain.