Claim · model-written summary
Black plastic mulch saved significantly higher soil moisture (49 %) than paddy straw mulch at 15 cm soil depth.
- Treatment
- BPMe0
- Outcome
- soil moisturee0
- Direction
- highere0
- Value
- 49 %e0
- Qualifier
- 15 cm soil depthe0
- Comparator
- paddy straw mulche0
CapsicumNot reportedMaterialGeneCompoundOrgan / stageInteractorInteractor roleSecond interactorSecond interactor roleSetting
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
t0“capsicum (Capsicum annuum)”
e0“BPM saved significantly higher soil moisture (49 %) as compared to paddy straw mulch at 15 cm soil depth”
Title
UJJAWAL KUMAR SHARMA; KUMUD S. MESHRAM INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL ENGINEERING 2015. doi:10.15740/has/ijae/8.1/54-59
Other claims from this paper (10)
- Intervention effect At 7:30 AM the average soil temperature under black plastic mulch was 1.29 C higher than under paddy straw mulch in the capsicum experiment.
- Intervention effect At 7:30 AM the average soil temperature under black plastic mulch was 1.93 C higher than without mulch in the capsicum experiment.
- Intervention effect At 2:00 PM the average soil temperature under black plastic mulch increased by 4.6 C compared with paddy straw mulch.
- Intervention effect At 2:00 PM the average soil temperature under black plastic mulch increased by 1.62 C compared with without mulch.
- Intervention effect The average soil temperature without mulch was 3.0 C more than under paddy straw mulch.
- Intervention effect Soil temperature under paddy straw mulch was higher than without mulch when the atmospheric temperature was low in the morning.
- Intervention effect Black plastic mulch saved 44 per cent more soil moisture than paddy straw mulch at 30 cm soil depth.
- Intervention effect Black plastic mulch with an 80 per cent irrigation level gave the maximum capsicum yield, 20802.40 kg/ha.
- Intervention effect Black plastic mulch with 100 per cent irrigation gave the next highest capsicum yield, 20000.00 kg/ha, after the maximum.
- Intervention effect The minimum capsicum yield was found without mulch under the control irrigation condition.