Claim · model-written summary
Priming gave a 13% grain yield advantage in marginal Indian areas.
- Taxon
- wheat
Triticum aestivume0 - Treatment
- seed priminge0
- Outcome
- grain yielde0
- Direction
- advantagee0
- Value
- 13%e0
- Setting
- Bihar and West Bengal states of Indiae0
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Verbatim
e0“In forty-one trials in tribal areas of Bihar and West Bengal states of India, seed priming gave a 13% grain yield advantage for farmers growing wheat in marginal areas with low levels of agricultural inputs.”
Title
PARTICIPATORY EVALUATION BY FARMERS OF ON-FARM SEED PRIMING IN WHEAT IN INDIA, NEPAL AND PAKISTAN
D. Harris; B. S. Raghuwanshi; J. S. Gangwar; et al. Experimental Agriculture 2001. doi:10.1017/s0014479701003106
Other claims from this paper (14)
- Intervention effect Water soaking nearly halved time to 50% germination from 51 h to 27 h.
- Intervention effect A 24 h delay reduced the time saved by priming to 16%.
- Intervention effect Priming did not change final germination percentage.
- Intervention effect Priming gave 17% mean benefit in Chitwan trials.
- Intervention effect Priming averaged a 5% yield benefit in Gujarat.
- Intervention effect Priming added 200 kg ha −1 grain in Gujarat.
- Intervention effect Gypsum solution priming increased yield by 36% in Ahmadwala.
- Intervention effect Farmers reported faster and more complete emergence after overnight priming.
- Intervention effect Farmers reported improved early growth and tillering after priming.
- Intervention effect Farmers reported earlier flowering and maturity, larger ears, and higher yields.
- Intervention effect Farmers reported darker green foliage in primed plots.
- Mechanism Farmers suggested primed wheat may use nitrogen more efficiently.
- Observation Most farmers said they would prime wheat the following year.
- Observation In a Gujarat survey, 65% of farmers primed their own seed and none primed more than 50 kg.