Claim · model-written summary
Maize output energy, energy balance, energy-use efficiency and energy productivity were significantly higher with conventional tillage than rotavator.
- Treatment
- conventional tillagee0
- Outcome
- output energy, energy balance, energy-use efficiency and energy productivitye0
- Direction
- highere0
- Comparator
- rotavatore0
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Verbatim
e0“In maize, output energy, energy balance, energy-use efficiency and energy productivity were significantly higher in conventional tillage than rotavator.”
Title
A.K. KHOKHAR; S.S. BAWA; SATVINDER SINGH; et al. Indian Journal of Agronomy 2024. doi:10.59797/ija.v63i3.5648
Other claims from this paper (18)
- Intervention effect Conventional tillage raised maize grain yield 15.5% relative to rotavator.
- Intervention effect Conventional tillage raised wheat grain yield 0.44% relative to rotavator.
- Intervention effect Conventional tillage system productivity was 9.7% higher than rotavator.
- Intervention effect Application of 80 kg N/ha through urea increased maize yield by 45% over control.
- Intervention effect Application of 80 kg N/ha through urea increased wheat yield by 43% over control.
- Intervention effect Urea nitrogen produced significantly higher system productivity than control.
- Intervention effect Urea and organic nitrogen produced significantly higher system productivity than control.
- Intervention effect Conventional tillage required 6.3% more input energy for maize than rotavator.
- Intervention effect Conventional tillage required 4.4% more input energy for wheat than rotavator.
- Intervention effect Wheat energy values were higher with rotavator but at par with conventional tillage.
- Intervention effect Rotavator significantly improved soil bulk density.
- Intervention effect Rotavator significantly improved soil organic carbon.
- Intervention effect Urea plus compost nitrogen produced the highest bulk density of 1.41 Mg/m3.
- Intervention effect Urea plus compost nitrogen produced the highest organic carbon of 0.60%.
- Intervention effect Urea plus compost nitrogen produced the highest available N of 199 kg/ha.
- Intervention effect Urea plus compost nitrogen produced the highest available P of 29.6 kg/ha.
- Intervention effect Rotavator had a significantly higher system benefit: cost ratio of 1.70.
- Intervention effect Application of 80 kg N/ha from urea had a significantly higher system benefit: cost ratio of 2.07.