Claim · model-written summary
Conventional plough and harrow treatments gave better maize growth and yield.
- Treatment
- conventional tillage i.e. plough+Harrow and Plough+Harrow+Ridgee0
- Outcome
- growth and yield of maizee0
- Direction
- bettere0
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Verbatim
e0“growth and yield of maize were better in plots treated with conventional tillage i.e. plough+Harrow and Plough+Harrow+Ridge”
Title
I Babatunde; S Ogundare; S Ojeniyi; et al. American Research Journal of Agriculture 2017. doi:10.21694/2378-9018.16009
Other claims from this paper (7)
- Intervention effect Tillage significantly influenced soil physical properties and organic matter, nitrogen and phosphorus in both soils.
- Intervention effect Tillage significantly influenced maize stem girth, leaf area and plant height in both soils.
- Intervention effect Tillage significantly influenced days to 50% tasselling and maize yield in both soils.
- Intervention effect Tillage significantly influenced maize leaf nutrient content in both soils.
- Intervention effect Manual tillage gave better soil physical conditions.
- Recommendation The authors recommend conventional tillage for maize seedbeds.
- Recommendation The authors recommend ploughing and harrowing to reduce seedbed preparation cost.