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Minimum tillage without mulch had the minimum yield each year.
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e0“The high water use efficiency in the year 2019 (5.71 kg ha-1 mm-1) influences the maximum growth and yield (5,169 kg ha-1)of the crop followed by 2018 (4.74 kg ha-1 mm-1) but the minimum yield was found under minimum tillage without mulch in every year.”
t0“Maize Crops”
Title
Effect of Tillage and Mulching on Growth, Yield and Economics of Maize Crops
Pramod Kumar; Suman Lata; Swapnil -; et al. International Journal of Bio-resource and Stress Management 2022. doi:10.23910/1.2022.2362a
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- Intervention effect Raised bed sowing with polythene mulch had higher rain water use efficiency than other treatments, at 5.71 kg ha-1 mm-1.
- Intervention effect Minimum tillage without mulch had the lowest rain water use efficiency, at 2.96 kg ha-1 mm-1.
- Association The 2019 crop had maximum yield of 5,169 kg ha-1 alongside high water use efficiency.
- Association Higher growth was associated with higher stover yield.
- Intervention effect Plastic mulch prevented weeding cost.
- Intervention effect Plastic mulch improved the benefit to cost ratio to 1.97.
- Intervention effect Plastic mulch reduced cultivation cost and improved net return.
- Recommendation The authors do not recommend minimum tillage without mulch under dryland conditions.
- Recommendation The authors recommend raised bed sowing with plastic mulch among the tested practices.
- Mechanism Raised beds protected maize from excess water conditions.
- Intervention effect Plastic mulch increased water use efficiency.
- Intervention effect Plastic mulch helped control weeds.
- Intervention effect Plastic mulch maintained temperature near the root zone.
- Intervention effect Absence of mulch degraded the fertile soil layer by erosion.