Claim · model-written summary
Strip cropping of maize-black gram (4:8) increased maize equivalent yield by 98.4% over the maize + black gram intercropping control.
- Treatment
- strip cropping of maize-black gram (4:8)e1
- Outcome
- maize equivalent yielde1
- Direction
- increasede1
- Value
- 98.4 per cente1
- Comparator
- control (maize + black gram intercropping (2:2)e1
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Verbatim
e0“rainfed maize based cropping system”
e1“strip cropping of maize-black gram (4:8) was the best treatment in terms of environment, energetic, economics and increased maize equivalent yield by 98.4 per cent over control (maize + black gram intercropping (2:2)”
Title
R Sammauria; ML Jat; SK Bairwa; et al. International Journal of Research in Agronomy 2025. doi:10.33545/2618060x.2025.v8.i9sb.3747
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- Intervention effect RAFIO decreased runoff by 25 to 28% compared with deep tillage.
- Intervention effect RAFIO decreased runoff by 44 to 45% compared with shallow tillage.
- Intervention effect Deep tillage decreased runoff by 52% over shallow tillage in paired intercropping.
- Intervention effect Deep tillage decreased runoff by 51% over shallow tillage in strip cropping.
- Intervention effect RAFIO increased maize grain equivalent yield by 27 to 41% over deep tillage.
- Intervention effect RAFIO increased maize grain equivalent yield by 36.02 to 47.59% over shallow tillage.
- Intervention effect RAFIO increased net return by 39 to 106% over deep tillage.
- Intervention effect RAFIO increased net return by 67.8 to 156.5% over shallow tillage.
- Intervention effect Deep tillage increased maize yield by 40.4% under strip cropping.
- Intervention effect Deep tillage increased maize yield by 39.4% under inter cropping.
- Observation The maximum share of energy input was 43.02 – 76.69% across moisture conservation practices.
- Observation Tillage accounted for 4.15 – 32.60% of energy input across moisture conservation practices.
- Intervention effect Deep tillage required 6.59 times higher energy input than shallow tillage.
- Intervention effect RAFIO had 49.18% higher energy input in paired intercropping than in strip cropping of maize – black gram (4:8).