Claim · model-written summary
Drip irrigation at 0.6 PEF with sugarcane trash mulch at 5 t/ha significantly increased pigeonpea yield.
- Taxon
- pigeonpea
Cajanus cajane0 - Treatment
- 0.6 PEF through drip irrigation with sugarcane trash mulch @ 5 t/hae0
- Outcome
- yielde0
- Direction
- highere0
- Setting
- college farm, CAET, NAU, Dediapadae1
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Verbatim
e0“Growing of rabi pigeonpea resulted significantly higher yield due to 0.6 significantly higher in 0.6 PEF through drip irrigation with sugarcane trash mulch @ 5 t/ha.”
e1“college farm, CAET, NAU, Dediapada”
Title
Response of Pigeon Pea to Drip Irrigation and Mulching
M.A. Solanki; A.L. Chalodia; M.H. Fadadu; et al. International Journal of Current Microbiology and Applied Sciences 2019. doi:10.20546/ijcmas.2019.802.011
Other claims from this paper (16)
- Intervention effect Drip irrigation with sugarcane trash mulch at 5 t/ha produced higher pigeonpea yield attributes.
- Intervention effect The irrigation-mulch interaction significantly affected plant height at harvest, reported as 182.66 cm.
- Intervention effect The irrigation-mulch interaction significantly affected secondary branch number, reported as 23.04.
- Intervention effect The irrigation-mulch interaction significantly affected grain yield, reported as 3318.4 kg/ha.
- Intervention effect The irrigation-mulch interaction significantly affected haulm yield, reported as 2615.24 kg/ha.
- Intervention effect The irrigation-mulch interaction significantly affected fodder yield, reported as 2712.21 kg/ha.
- Intervention effect The irrigation-mulch interaction significantly affected stalk yield, reported as 7749.17 kg/ha.
- Intervention effect The irrigation-mulch interaction significantly affected dry root weight, reported as 1590.28 kg/ha.
- Intervention effect The irrigation-mulch interaction significantly affected harvest index, reported as 24.26 %.
- Intervention effect The irrigation-mulch interaction significantly affected water use efficiency, reported as 6.84 kg/ha-mm.
- Intervention effect Water use efficiency decreased as irrigation level increased.
- Intervention effect Drip irrigation at 0.6 PEF with sugarcane trash mulch at 5 t/ha had higher water use efficiency than surface irrigation.
- Intervention effect Drip irrigation at 0.6 PEF with sugarcane trash mulch saved 34.79 per cent water compared with surface irrigation.
- Intervention effect Drip irrigation at 0.6 PEF with 5 t/ha sugarcane trash mulch and 56 per cent coverage recorded higher net returns of 136475.99 Rs/ha.
- Intervention effect The same irrigation-mulch treatment recorded a higher benefit cost ratio of 3.66.
- Recommendation The authors recommend drip irrigation at 0.6 PEF with sugarcane trash mulch at 5 t/ha for pigeonpea production and profit.