Claim · model-written summary
Mulching reduced weeds by 56 – 60% versus chemical treatments.
- Taxon
- onion
Allium cepat0 - Treatment
- Mulchinge0
- Interactor
- weedse0weed
- Outcome
- weedse0
- Direction
- reducede0
- Value
- 56 – 60%e0
- Comparator
- chemical weed treatmentse0
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Mulching reduced weeds by 56 – 60% compared to the chemical weed treatments”
t0“Weed management in onion”
Title
Weed management in onion using chemical, non-chemical, and manual methods
K.M. Khokhar; T. Mahmood; S.I. Hussain The Journal of Horticultural Science and Biotechnology 2010. doi:10.1080/14620316.2010.11512700
Other claims from this paper (10)
- Intervention effect Weed competition reduced onion bulb yield by 62% in the first year.
- Intervention effect Weed competition reduced onion bulb yield by 68% in the second year.
- Observation Polygonum plebejum and Amaranthus viridis were dominant onion field weeds.
- Observation Cyperus rotundus and Coronopus didymus were dominant onion field weeds.
- Intervention effect Rice straw mulch significantly increased onion bulb yield relative to the weed-free treatment.
- Intervention effect Pendimethalin plus manual weeding significantly increased onion bulb yield relative to the weed-free treatment.
- Intervention effect Rice straw mulch produced a 26 t ha–1 bulb yield increase versus untreated control.
- Intervention effect Pendimethalin plus manual weeding produced a 24 t ha–1 bulb yield increase versus untreated control.
- Intervention effect Rice straw mulch yielded net returns of US$ 1,522 ha–1.
- Intervention effect Pendimethalin plus manual weeding yielded net returns of US$ 1,486 ha–1.