Claim · model-written summary
Deep tillage gave higher gravimetric moisture content (1-8%) than shallow and zero tillage.
- Treatment
- Deep tilled plote3
- Outcome
- gravimetric moisture contente3
- Direction
- highere3
- Value
- 1-8e3
- Comparator
- shallow tilled and zero tilled plotse3
- Setting
- Southeastern Nigeriae0
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Verbatim
e0“An experiment was carried out using maize (Zea mays L.) to evaluate organic carbon dynamics and changes in some physical properties of soil and grain yield of maize under conservative tillage practices on an ultisol in Southeastern Nigeria”
e3“Deep tilled plot had 2-9% significantly lower bulk density and 20-36, 1-8 and 27-55% higher total porosity, gravimetric moisture content and saturated hydraulic conductivity when compared to shallow tilled and zero tilled plots”
Title
Nte Nwite James; Christopher Okolo Chukwuebuka African Journal of Agricultural Research 2017. doi:10.5897/ajar2017.12333
Other claims from this paper (9)
- Intervention effect Tillage reduced maize seedling emergence by 5 days compared with zero tillage.
- Intervention effect Deep tilled plot grain yield of maize was significantly higher by 4 than shallow tilled plot.
- Intervention effect Deep tilled plot grain yield of maize was significantly higher by 20% than zero tilled plot.
- Intervention effect Deep tillage gave significantly lower soil bulk density (2-9%) than shallow and zero tillage.
- Intervention effect Deep tillage gave higher total porosity (20-36%) than shallow and zero tillage.
- Intervention effect Deep tillage gave higher saturated hydraulic conductivity (27-55%) than shallow and zero tillage.
- Intervention effect Deep tillage gave significantly higher organic carbon (15%) than shallow tillage.
- Intervention effect Deep tillage gave significantly higher organic carbon (55%) than zero tillage.
- Recommendation Conservative tillage practices are recommended for sustainable and profitable production of maize in Nigeria.